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title: “Forget to-day, think only of to-morrow—for then there will be plent… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Forget to-day, think only of to-morrow—for then there will be plenty,” answered Ilmarinen. Who acts: plenty, Ilmarinen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 26

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“Forget to-day, think only of to-morrow—for then there will be plenty,” answered Ilmarinen.

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**Who acts:** plenty, Ilmarinen · **What happens:** forget, think, be, answer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (plenty, 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:pg66819:10:26
# text = “Forget to-day, think only of to-morrow—for then there will be plenty,” answered Ilmarinen.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	obl	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
19	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
22	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to morrow | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | future | plenty |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Ilmarinen |  |  |  |  |  | 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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