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title: All these he cast into the tub of water wherein the Smith was vainly… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: All these he cast into the tub of water wherein the Smith was vainly trying to temper Iron. Who acts: these, Smith. 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 94

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All these he cast into the tub of water wherein the Smith was vainly trying to temper Iron.

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**Who acts:** these, Smith · **What happens:** cast, try · **To what, where:** tub, temper

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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 (these, 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:pg66819:5:94
# text = All these he cast into the tub of water wherein the Smith was vainly trying to temper Iron.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	2	det:predet	_	_
2	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cast	cast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tub	tub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	vainly	vainly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	_
18	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cast** | past | these |  |  | the tub of water |  | Smith *nsubj* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into tub=Product |
| 2 | **try** | past · progressive | the Smith | temper |  |  |  | Iron *obl*; vainly, wherein *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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