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title: “I only pray you to do me a great, although undeserved, favor. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “I only pray you to do me a great, although undeserved, favor. Who acts: Minstrel. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 102

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“I only pray you to do me a great, although undeserved, favor.

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**Who acts:** Minstrel · **What happens:** pray, do, undeserv · **To what, where:** you, great, Minstrel

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel), 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:pg66819:14:102
# text = “I only pray you to do me a great, although undeserved, favor.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	undeserved	undeserv	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	favor	favor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** *in a quote* | present | the Minstrel *= minstrel* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Minstrel *= minstrel* *not said here* | a great | the Minstrel *= minstrel* |  |  | undeserved favor *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **undeserv** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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