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title: Of Iron, sharp Iron, strong Iron, I sing, Of Iron, my servant, of Ir… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Of Iron, sharp Iron, strong Iron, I sing, Of Iron, my servant, of Iron, my king— Ding! Who acts: I. 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 113

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Of Iron, sharp Iron, strong Iron, I sing, Of Iron, my servant, of Iron, my king— Ding!

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** sing · **To what, where:** Iron

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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 (I), 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:pg66819:5:113
# text = Of Iron, sharp Iron, strong Iron, I sing, Of Iron, my servant, of Iron, my king— Ding!
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Ding	ding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | I | Iron and my servant and Iron and my king and Ding |  |  |  | of Iron and sharp Iron and strong Iron | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location iron=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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