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title: Note C, page 10.—“Sampo”—compare this with Aladdin’s lamp, with the… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Note C, page 10.—“Sampo”—compare this with Aladdin’s lamp, with the philosopher’s stone of the mediæval alchemists, with Solomon’s carpet, etc. Who acts: you. 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 pragmatic
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 151

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Note C, page 10.—“Sampo”—compare this with Aladdin’s lamp, with the philosopher’s stone of the mediæval alchemists, with Solomon’s carpet, etc.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** note, compare · **To what, where:** C, this

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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 (you), 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:pg66819:38:151
# text = Note C, page 10.—“Sampo”—compare this with Aladdin’s lamp, with the philosopher’s stone of the mediæval alchemists, with Solomon’s carpet, etc.
1	Note	note	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	C	C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	compare	compare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
13	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	philosopher	philosopher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	mediæval	mediæval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	alchemists	alchemist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’s	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	etc.	etc.	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **note** | imperative | you *not said here* | C |  |  |  | Sampo *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **compare** | infinitive |  | this |  |  |  | with Aladdin's lamp; with the philosopher's stone of the mediæval alchemists; Solomon's carpet and etc. *parataxis* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent this=Patient with lamp=Co-Patient |

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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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