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title: He carried a hammer of stone in one hand and tongs of bronze in the… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He carried a hammer of stone in one hand and tongs of bronze in the other; and a song of peace was upon his lips. Who acts: Smith, song, peace. 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 37

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He carried a hammer of stone in one hand and tongs of bronze in the other; and a song of peace was upon his lips.

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**Who acts:** Smith, song, peace · **What happens:** carry, be, sing · **To what, where:** hammer, one hand

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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 (Smith, song, peace), 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:pg66819:5:37
# text = He carried a hammer of stone in one hand and tongs of bronze in the other; and a song of peace was upon his lips.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	tongs	tong	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | Smith | a hammer of stone |  | one hand and tongs of bronze |  | in the other | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hammer=Value in hand=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | a song of peace |  |  |  |  | upon Smith's lips; Smith *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sing** |  | peace |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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