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title: What shall we do when we are hungry and there are no nuts to be gath… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: What shall we do when we are hungry and there are no nuts to be gathered, no roots to be digged, no small beasts to be captured, no food of any kind? Who acts: we, nuts. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 24

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What shall we do when we are hungry and there are no nuts to be gathered, no roots to be digged, no small beasts to be captured, no food of any kind?

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**Who acts:** we, nuts · **What happens:** do, be, gather, digg, capture · **To what, where:** roots

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, nuts), 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:pg66819:10:24
# text = What shall we do when we are hungry and there are no nuts to be gathered, no roots to be digged, no small beasts to be captured, no food of any kind?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	digged	digg	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
25	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	captured	capture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
35	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | shall | we | no roots and no small beasts and no food of any kind |  |  |  | What *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present | we |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **does** | present | no nuts |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **gather** | to-infinitive · passive | no nuts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V» |
| 5 | **digg** | to-infinitive · passive | we *not said here* | no roots and no small beasts and no food of any kind *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **capture** | to-infinitive · passive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP» |

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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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