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title: Many are they who have gone thither—some by land, some by sea—yet no… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Many are they who have gone thither—some by land, some by sea—yet none have returned to tell others of what they have learned. Who acts: Many, lines. 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 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 5

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Many are they who have gone thither—some by land, some by sea—yet none have returned to tell others of what they have learned.

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**Who acts:** Many, lines · **What happens:** be, return, tell, learn · **To what, where:** none, others · **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 (Many, lines), 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:pg66819:14:5
# text = Many are they who have gone thither—some by land, some by sea—yet none have returned to tell others of what they have learned.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	conj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	nmod	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
23	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nmod	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect | Many |  |  |  |  | lines *= line* *nsubj*; who *nsubj*; go, thither *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **return** | present · perfect · passive |  | none |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | others |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent other=Recipient |
| 4 | **learn** | present · perfect | lines *= line* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=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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