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title: In any case, it was situated in the far-distant North and was known… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: In any case, it was situated in the far-distant North and was known in the original tale as Pohyola, or Sariola. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 148

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In any case, it was situated in the far-distant North and was known in the original tale as Pohyola, or Sariola.

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**What happens:** situate, know · **To what, where:** case, original tale

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:38:148
# text = In any case, it was situated in the far-distant North and was known in the original tale as Pohyola, or Sariola.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	situated	situate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Sariola	Sariola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **situate** | past · passive |  | case |  | any case |  | in the distant North | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in case=Destination |
| 2 | **know** | past · passive |  |  |  | the original tale |  | as Pohyola or Sariola | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as pohyola=Attribute |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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