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title: O Ilmarinen, skilfulest of men, if you are not afraid, climb quickly… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: O Ilmarinen, skilfulest of men, if you are not afraid, climb quickly up and fetch down those matchless treasures.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 125

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O Ilmarinen, skilfulest of men, if you are not afraid, climb quickly up and fetch down those matchless treasures.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not be, climb, fetch down · **To what, where:** matchless treasures

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg66819:7:125
# text = O Ilmarinen, skilfulest of men, if you are not afraid, climb quickly up and fetch down those matchless treasures.”
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	skilfulest	skilful	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	climb	climb	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	up	up	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	matchless	matchless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **climb** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fetch down** | infinitive |  | that matchless treasures |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=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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