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title: “To a smith who has shaped the mountains and hammered out the sky it… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “To a smith who has shaped the mountains and hammered out the sky it will be an easy task, the pleasant pastime of a few fleeting days. Who acts: sky. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Recipe, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 63

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“To a smith who has shaped the mountains and hammered out the sky it will be an easy task, the pleasant pastime of a few fleeting days.

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**Who acts:** sky · **What happens:** shape, hammer out, be · **To what, where:** easy task, sky

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Recipe. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sky), 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:pg66819:9:63
# text = “To a smith who has shaped the mountains and hammered out the sky it will be an easy task, the pleasant pastime of a few fleeting days.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	hammered	hammer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	pastime	pastime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	fleeting	fleeting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shape** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | a easy task and the pleasant pastime of a few fleeting days |  |  |  | to a smith; the mountains *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary mountain=Product |
| 2 | **hammer out** *in a quote* | participle |  | the sky |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sky=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | sky | a easy task and the pleasant pastime of a few fleeting days |  |  |  | the pleasant pastime of a few fleeting days *conj* | tree rules |

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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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