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title: “None but the prince of wizards could thus have come to Tuonela; and… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “None but the prince of wizards could thus have come to Tuonela; and yet there is no magic strong enough to save you from your doom.” Who acts: None, magic, your. 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 pragmat
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 122

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“None but the prince of wizards could thus have come to Tuonela; and yet there is no magic strong enough to save you from your doom.”

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**Who acts:** None, magic, your · **What happens:** come, be, save, doom · **To what, where:** Tuonela, you, doom

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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 (None, magic, 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:pg66819:14:122
# text = “None but the prince of wizards could thus have come to Tuonela; and yet there is no magic strong enough to save you from your doom.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	None	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	wizards	wizard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Tuonela	Tuonela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
21	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
22	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	doom	doom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | could · perfect | None  the prince of wizards |  |  | Tuonela |  | thus *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to tuonela=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | no magic |  |  | there | yet |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **save** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | no magic *not said here* | you |  | your doom |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent you=Theme from doom=Source |
| 4 | **doom** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom doom «event 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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