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title: With painful labor, Ilmarinen climbed from branch to branch. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: With painful labor, Ilmarinen climbed from branch to branch. Who acts: Ilmarinen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tempest, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 1

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With painful labor, Ilmarinen climbed from branch to branch.

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen · **What happens:** climb · **To what, where:** branch

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tempest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilmarinen), 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:pg66819:8:1
# text = With painful labor, Ilmarinen climbed from branch to branch.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	painful	painful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	labor	labor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | past | Ilmarinen |  |  | branch |  | with painful labor; to branch | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from branch=Initial\_Location to branch=Destination |

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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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