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title: His anvil was a block of gray granite; his forge was carefully build… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: His anvil was a block of gray granite; his forge was carefully builded of sand and clay; his bellows was made of the skins of mountain goats sewn together. Who acts: anvil, Smith. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet, with its dependency tree 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 39

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His anvil was a block of gray granite; his forge was carefully builded of sand and clay; his bellows was made of the skins of mountain goats sewn together.

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**Who acts:** anvil, Smith · **What happens:** be, builde, make, sew, bellow · **To what, where:** block, forge, bellows, mountain goats

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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 (anvil, Smith), 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:pg66819:5:39
# text = His anvil was a block of gray granite; his forge was carefully builded of sand and clay; his bellows was made of the skins of mountain goats sewn together.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	anvil	anvil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	block	block	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	granite	granite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	forge	forge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	builded	builde	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	bellows	bellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	sewn	sew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	together	together	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Smith's anvil | a block |  |  |  | of gray granite | tree rules |
| 2 | **builde** | past · passive |  | Smith's forge |  |  |  | of sand and clay; carefully *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | past · passive |  | Smith's bellows |  |  |  | of the skins of mountain goats | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **sew** | participle |  | mountain goats *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **bellow** |  | Smith |  |  |  |  |  | nom bellow «communication intransitive»: poss=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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