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title: Towering above both friends and foes, mighty in strength and enduran… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Towering above both friends and foes, mighty in strength and endurance, the master Smith moved to and fro performing many deeds of courage. Who acts: master. 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
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 61

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Towering above both friends and foes, mighty in strength and endurance, the master Smith moved to and fro performing many deeds of courage.

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**Who acts:** master · **What happens:** tower, move, perform · **To what, where:** many deeds

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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 (master), 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:pg66819:38:61
# text = Towering above both friends and foes, mighty in strength and endurance, the master Smith moved to and fro performing many deeds of courage.
1	Towering	tower	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
2	above	above	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	foes	foe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	endurance	endurance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	fro	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	performing	perform	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tower** | gerund | the master *not said here* |  |  |  |  | above both friends and foes | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above friend=Location |
| 2 | **move** | past | the master |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **perform** | gerund | the master *not said here* | many deeds of courage |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=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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