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title: All things in Wainola would be strangers to me, while all things in… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: All things in Wainola would be strangers to me, while all things in Pohyola are friends. Who acts: things. 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 every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 38

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All things in Wainola would be strangers to me, while all things in Pohyola are friends.

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**Who acts:** things · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** strangers, me, friends

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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 (things), 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:pg66819:12:38
# text = All things in Wainola would be strangers to me, while all things in Pohyola are friends.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Wainola	Wainola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would | all things in Wainola | strangers and friends | me |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | all things in Pohyola | friends |  |  |  |  | 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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