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title: “O lovely keeper of Tuoni’s ferry, speak not so harshly to a lone, w… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “O lovely keeper of Tuoni’s ferry, speak not so harshly to a lone, weary, traveller! 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 72

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“O lovely keeper of Tuoni’s ferry, speak not so harshly to a lone, weary, traveller!

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**What happens:** not speak · **To what, where:** lovely keeper · **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: 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:pg66819:14:72
# text = “O lovely keeper of Tuoni’s ferry, speak not so harshly to a lone, weary, traveller!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
3	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Tuoni	Tuoni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	ferry	ferry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	harshly	harshly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
16	lone	lone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | harshly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «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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