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title: The North Country, the Frozen Land as you call it, would be very lon… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The North Country, the Frozen Land as you call it, would be very lonely if I were to leave it; the meadows would be joyless, the hills would be forlorn, the shores would be desolate. Who acts: you, North Country, I, meadows. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin,
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 39

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The North Country, the Frozen Land as you call it, would be very lonely if I were to leave it; the meadows would be joyless, the hills would be forlorn, the shores would be desolate.

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**Who acts:** you, North Country, I, meadows, hills, shores · **What happens:** call, be, leave · **To what, where:** country · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, North Country, I, meadows), 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:pg66819:12:39
# text = The North Country, the Frozen Land as you call it, would be very lonely if I were to leave it; the meadows would be joyless, the hills would be forlorn, the shores would be desolate.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Country	Country	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Frozen	Frozen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
28	joyless	joyless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
32	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	cop	_	_
34	forlorn	forlorn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
38	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	cop	_	_
40	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | you | country |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | would | the North Country |  |  |  |  | lonely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | I | country |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | would | the meadows |  |  |  |  | joyless *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | would | the hills |  |  |  |  | forlorn *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | would | the shores |  |  |  |  | desolate *property* | 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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