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title: And thus he promised, not once alone, but thrice, promised solemnly… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And thus he promised, not once alone, but thrice, promised solemnly on his honor, that he with his magic power would forge the wondrous mill of fortune and shape its lid of rainbow colors. Who acts: Ilmarinen, thrice. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Re
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 69

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And thus he promised, not once alone, but thrice, promised solemnly on his honor, that he with his magic power would forge the wondrous mill of fortune and shape its lid of rainbow colors.

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen, thrice · **What happens:** promise, forge, honor · **To what, where:** honor, wondrous mill

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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 (Ilmarinen, thrice), 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:pg66819:9:69
# text = And thus he promised, not once alone, but thrice, promised solemnly on his honor, that he with his magic power would forge the wondrous mill of fortune and shape its lid of rainbow colors.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
8	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	thrice	thrice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	forge	forge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
34	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | Ilmarinen |  |  |  |  | once, thus *property* | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | thrice |  |  | Ilmarinen's honor |  | solemnly *property* | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **forge** | would | Ilmarinen | the wondrous mill of fortune and shape |  |  |  | power's lid of rainbow colors *obj* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent mill=Beneficiary lid=Product |
| 4 | **honor** |  | Ilmarinen |  |  |  |  |  | nom honor «communication 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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