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title: Ilmarinen led the Minstrel into the smithy; he made him sit down on… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Ilmarinen led the Minstrel into the smithy; he made him sit down on the edge of his workbench; and all the time he kept his arm around his neck in loving, brotherly embrace. Who acts: Ilmarinen, Minstrel. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy, with it
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 29

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Ilmarinen led the Minstrel into the smithy; he made him sit down on the edge of his workbench; and all the time he kept his arm around his neck in loving, brotherly embrace.

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen, Minstrel · **What happens:** lead, make, sit down, keep · **To what, where:** Minstrel, smithy, edge, arm, neck

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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 (Ilmarinen, Minstrel), 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:pg66819:7:29
# text = Ilmarinen led the Minstrel into the smithy; he made him sit down on the edge of his workbench; and all the time he kept his arm around his neck in loving, brotherly embrace.
1	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	smithy	smithy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	workbench	workbench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	around	around	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	brotherly	brotherly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	embrace	embrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | Ilmarinen | the Minstrel |  | the smithy |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent minstrel=Theme into smithy=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | past | Ilmarinen | Minstrel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit down** | infinitive | Minstrel *not said here* |  |  | the edge of Minstrel's workbench |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on edge=Location |
| 4 | **keep** | past | Ilmarinen | Minstrel's arm |  | Minstrel's neck | time | in loving brotherly embrace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent arm=Theme around neck=Location |

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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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