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title: “At what moment would you like to start on your homeward journey?” — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “At what moment would you like to start on your homeward journey?” Who acts: moment, your. 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 80

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“At what moment would you like to start on your homeward journey?”

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**Who acts:** moment, your · **What happens:** like, start, journey · **To what, where:** homeward journey

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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 (moment, 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:pg66819:12:80
# text = “At what moment would you like to start on your homeward journey?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** *in a quote* | would | moment |  |  |  |  | what *obj*; you *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **start** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | moment *not said here* |  |  | your homeward journey |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **journey** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act 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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