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title: “Push him with your mighty hand; Blow him o’er the blue-backed sea;… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Push him with your mighty hand; Blow him o’er the blue-backed sea; Carry him safe to Hero Land, And let him ne’er come back to me.” Who acts: you, guest. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 107

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“Push him with your mighty hand; Blow him o’er the blue-backed sea; Carry him safe to Hero Land, And let him ne’er come back to me.”

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**Who acts:** you, guest · **What happens:** push, blow, back, carry, let, ne'er · **To what, where:** guest, shores

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, guest), 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:pg66819:12:107
# text = “Push him with your mighty hand; Blow him o’er the blue-backed sea; Carry him safe to Hero Land, And let him ne’er come back to me.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Push	push	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Blow	blow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	o’er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	backed	back	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Hero	Hero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	ne’er	ne'er	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | guest |  |  |  | with your mighty hand | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **blow** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | guest |  |  |  | o'er the backed sea | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 3 | **back** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **carry** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | guest |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | guest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **ne'er** *in a quote* | infinitive | guest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **come back** *in a quote* | infinitive | guest *not said here* |  | shores *= shore* |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location |

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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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