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title: “You speak well,” said the dwarf; “stay where you are and enjoy the… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “You speak well,” said the dwarf; “stay where you are and enjoy the soft breezes from the sea. Who acts: You. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 68

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“You speak well,” said the dwarf; “stay where you are and enjoy the soft breezes from the sea.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** speak, say, stay, be, enjoy · **To what, where:** dwarf, soft breezes, sea · **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 (You), 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:pg66819:13:68
# text = “You speak well,” said the dwarf; “stay where you are and enjoy the soft breezes from the sea.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advcl	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	breezes	breeze	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | You *not said here* | the dwarf |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dwarf=Topic |
| 3 | **stay** *in a quote* | infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **enjoy** *in a quote* | present | You *not said here* | the soft breezes |  | the sea |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer breeze=Stimulus |

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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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