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title: It was known sometimes as Kalevala, sometimes as Wainola, but of its… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: It was known sometimes as Kalevala, sometimes as Wainola, but of its exact location there is no certain knowledge. Who acts: certain knowledge. 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 clau
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 150

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It was known sometimes as Kalevala, sometimes as Wainola, but of its exact location there is no certain knowledge.

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**Who acts:** certain knowledge · **What happens:** know, be · **To what, where:** home

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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: who acts (certain knowledge), 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:pg66819:38:150
# text = It was known sometimes as Kalevala, sometimes as Wainola, but of its exact location there is no certain knowledge.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Kalevala	Kalevala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Wainola	Wainola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
20	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past · passive |  | home |  |  |  | as Kalevala and Wainola | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as kalevala=Attribute |
| 2 | **be** | present | no certain knowledge |  |  | there |  | of home's exact location | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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