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title: But the ropes with which the heroes had bound it confused her—she co… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: But the ropes with which the heroes had bound it confused her—she could not break them. Who acts: Sampo, Pohyola. 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 77

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But the ropes with which the heroes had bound it confused her—she could not break them.

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**Who acts:** Sampo, Pohyola · **What happens:** bind, confuse, not break · **To what, where:** ropes, Pohyola

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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 (Sampo, Pohyola), 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:pg66819:38:77
# text = But the ropes with which the heroes had bound it confused her—she could not break them.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	confused	confuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bind** | past · perfect · passive |  | the ropes with the heroes  the ropes with the heroes  the ropes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **confuse** | past | Sampo | Pohyola |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **break** | could | Pohyola | ropes *= rope* |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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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