--- title: With Iron I labor, of Iron I sing; I heat it, I beat it, I make it r… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: With Iron I labor, of Iron I sing; I heat it, I beat it, I make it ring, ring, I scold it, I mould it—my hammer I swing— Cling, cling, clinkety cling! Who acts: I, Iron, hammer. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Iron, hammer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66819:7:13 # text = With Iron I labor, of Iron I sing; I heat it, I beat it, I make it ring, ring, I scold it, I mould it—my hammer I swing— Cling, cling, clinkety cling! 1 With with ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 labor labor VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 sing sing VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 heat heat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 beat beat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 ring ring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 ring ring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 scold scold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 mould mould NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 — - PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 hammer hammer NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 swing swing VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 — - PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 39 Cling cling NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 cling cling NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 clinkety clinkety NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 cling cling NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **labor** | present | I | | | | | with Iron | vn work-73.2 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with iron=Co-Agent | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | I | | | | | of Iron | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 3 | **heat** | present | I | Iron | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **beat** | present | I | Iron | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 5 | **make** | present | I | Iron | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **ring** | infinitive | Iron *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **ring** | infinitive | Iron *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **scold** | present | I | Iron | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **mould** | | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **swing** | present | my hammer | Cling and cling and clinkety cling | | | | I *nsubj* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/7/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/7/14/) - ↑ back to [The Smithy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/7/)