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title: CALL TO THE KEEPER ON THE FARTHER SHORE; THE KEEPER WILL QUICKLY FER… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: CALL TO THE KEEPER ON THE FARTHER SHORE; THE KEEPER WILL QUICKLY FERRY YOU O’ER. Who acts: you, KEEPER. 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 23

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CALL TO THE KEEPER ON THE FARTHER SHORE; THE KEEPER WILL QUICKLY FERRY YOU O’ER.

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**Who acts:** you, KEEPER · **What happens:** call, ferry · **To what, where:** KEEPER, FARTHER SHORE, YOU · **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 (you, KEEPER), 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:pg66819:14:23
# text = CALL TO THE KEEPER ON THE FARTHER SHORE; THE KEEPER WILL QUICKLY FERRY YOU O’ER.
1	CALL	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	TO	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	KEEPER	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	ON	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	FARTHER	far	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	SHORE	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	KEEPER	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	WILL	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	QUICKLY	quickly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	FERRY	ferry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
15	YOU	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	O’ER	O'ER	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | the KEEPER | the FARTHER SHORE |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to keeper=Recipient |
| 2 | **ferry** | future | the KEEPER | YOU |  |  |  | O’ER *obj*; quickly *property* | vn vehicle-51.4.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Theme o'er=Result |

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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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