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title: “I have no ache nor bodily pain,” he said; “but I am sick of this wr… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “I have no ache nor bodily pain,” he said; “but I am sick of this wretched country, this Frozen Land. Who acts: brain. 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 69

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“I have no ache nor bodily pain,” he said; “but I am sick of this wretched country, this Frozen Land.

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**Who acts:** brain · **What happens:** have, say, be · **To what, where:** ache · **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 (brain), 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:pg66819:12:69
# text = “I have no ache nor bodily pain,” he said; “but I am sick of this wretched country, this Frozen Land.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	ache	ache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	8	cc	_	_
7	bodily	bodily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
25	Frozen	Frozen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | brain | no ache nor bodily pain |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ache=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | brain |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | brain |  |  |  |  | of this wretched country; Frozen Land  this *obl*; sick *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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