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title: “Why, indeed, do you tarry so long in Pohyola, wearing out your welc… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Why, indeed, do you tarry so long in Pohyola, wearing out your welcome, and wearying us all with your presence?” Who acts: you, your. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the Sampo, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 87

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“Why, indeed, do you tarry so long in Pohyola, wearing out your welcome, and wearying us all with your presence?”

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**Who acts:** you, your · **What happens:** tarry, wear out, weary, welcome · **To what, where:** welcome, us

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your), 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:pg66819:11:87
# text = “Why, indeed, do you tarry so long in Pohyola, wearing out your welcome, and wearying us all with your presence?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	tarry	tarry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	welcome	welcome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	wearying	weary	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
21	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tarry** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wear out** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | your welcome |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent welcome=Source |
| 3 | **weary** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer all=Result |
| 4 | **welcome** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom welcome «state 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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