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title: And the youngest said, “Let us send down iron—iron of which tools ma… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And the youngest said, “Let us send down iron—iron of which tools may be made, iron of which sharp weapons may be shaped. Who acts: youngest, us. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 11

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And the youngest said, “Let us send down iron—iron of which tools may be made, iron of which sharp weapons may be shaped.

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**Who acts:** youngest, us · **What happens:** say, let, send down, make, shape · **To what, where:** us, iron, tools, sharp weapons · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, us), 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:pg66819:5:11
# text = And the youngest said, “Let us send down iron—iron of which tools may be made, iron of which sharp weapons may be shaped.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
8	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
16	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obl	_	_
24	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the youngest |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **send down** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | iron and iron and iron |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Theme |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | may · passive |  | tools |  |  |  | of iron and iron | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 5 | **shape** *in a quote* | may · passive |  | sharp weapons |  |  |  | of iron | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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