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title: On every holiday I’ll kill more—sometimes two, and sometimes very ma… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: On every holiday I’ll kill more—sometimes two, and sometimes very many. Who acts: I. 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 81

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On every holiday I’ll kill more—sometimes two, and sometimes very many.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** kill · **To what, where:** two, holiday

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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 (I), 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:pg66819:10:81
# text = On every holiday I’ll kill more—sometimes two, and sometimes very many.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | future | I | two |  | every holiday |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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