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title: Many men have travelled thither—heroes not a few, woodsmen, fisherme… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Many men have travelled thither—heroes not a few, woodsmen, fishermen, even fair women and tender children—but never has any one returned to tell of that land. Who acts: Many men. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat, with its dependency tre
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 159

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Many men have travelled thither—heroes not a few, woodsmen, fishermen, even fair women and tender children—but never has any one returned to tell of that land.

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**Who acts:** Many men · **What happens:** travell, not have, return, tell · **To what, where:** heroes, one · **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 Unfinished Boat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many men), 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:pg66819:13:159
# text = Many men have travelled thither—heroes not a few, woodsmen, fishermen, even fair women and tender children—but never has any one returned to tell of that land.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	travelled	travell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	woodsmen	woodsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travell** | present · perfect | Many men | heroes  a few woodsmen and fishermen and fair women and tender children |  |  |  | thither *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **have** | present | Many men *not said here* | any one |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 3 | **return** | participle |  | any one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of that land | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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