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title: Then in half-sad tones, as though in pity, she said, “You do not kno… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then in half-sad tones, as though in pity, she said, “You do not know what you ask, foolish hero. Who acts: maiden, You. 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 105

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Then in half-sad tones, as though in pity, she said, “You do not know what you ask, foolish hero.

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**Who acts:** maiden, You · **What happens:** say, not know, ask · **To what, where:** sad tones, foolish hero · **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 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 (maiden, 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:pg66819:14:105
# text = Then in half-sad tones, as though in pity, she said, “You do not know what you ask, foolish hero.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	though	though	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	obj	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | maiden |  |  | sad tones | then | in pity; though *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in tone=Manner |
| 2 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present | you | foolish hero |  |  |  | what *obj* | 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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