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title: You are to do some skilful blacksmithing—use a little of your wondro… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: You are to do some skilful blacksmithing—use a little of your wondrous magic—and your reward shall be the loveliest wife in the world. Who acts: You, reward, your. 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 e
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 72

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You are to do some skilful blacksmithing—use a little of your wondrous magic—and your reward shall be the loveliest wife in the world.

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**Who acts:** You, reward, your · **What happens:** be, use, reward · **To what, where:** skilful blacksmithing, little, loveliest wife, world

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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, reward, your), 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:pg66819:7:72
# text = You are to do some skilful blacksmithing—use a little of your wondrous magic—and your reward shall be the loveliest wife in the world.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	skilful	skilful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	blacksmithing	blacksmithing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
24	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present · do-support | You | some skilful blacksmithing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | infinitive |  | a little of your wondrous magic |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | shall | your reward | the loveliest wife |  | the world |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **reward** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom reward «event transitive»: 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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