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title: “Go back to your old haunts in the forest, and to-morrow I will send… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Go back to your old haunts in the forest, and to-morrow I will send you so many nuts and roots and small beasts that you shall grow fat with the eating of them.” Who acts: you, Ilmarinen, small beasts, nuts. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron, wi
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 27

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“Go back to your old haunts in the forest, and to-morrow I will send you so many nuts and roots and small beasts that you shall grow fat with the eating of them.”

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**Who acts:** you, Ilmarinen, small beasts, nuts · **What happens:** go back, send, grow, eat · **To what, where:** many nuts, you, fat

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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 (you, Ilmarinen, small beasts, 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:pg66819:10:27
# text = “Go back to your old haunts in the forest, and to-morrow I will send you so many nuts and roots and small beasts that you shall grow fat with the eating of them.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	haunts	haunt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	eating	eating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to your old haunts in the forest *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to haunt=Result |
| 2 | **send** *in a quote* | future | Ilmarinen | many nuts and roots and small beasts | you |  |  | to morrow | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination nut=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** *in a quote* | shall | small beasts | fat |  |  |  | with the eating of nuts; you *nsubj* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent fat=Patient with eating=Instrument |
| 4 | **eat** *in a quote* |  | nuts *= nut* |  |  |  |  |  | nom eating «act intransitive»: of=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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