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title: “Far be it from me to deceive you,” said the artful hero, foolishly… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Far be it from me to deceive you,” said the artful hero, foolishly and without judgment. Who acts: face, artful hero. 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 58

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“Far be it from me to deceive you,” said the artful hero, foolishly and without judgment.

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**Who acts:** face, artful hero · **What happens:** be, deceive, say · **To what, where:** face, 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 (face, artful hero), 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:pg66819:14:58
# text = “Far be it from me to deceive you,” said the artful hero, foolishly and without judgment.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	deceive	deceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	artful	artful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	foolishly	foolishly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	without	without	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | face |  |  |  | from the artful hero *= hero*; far *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **deceive** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | face | you |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the artful hero |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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