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title: Speak with clean lips and say truly why you have come hither with he… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Speak with clean lips and say truly why you have come hither with healthy body and with red heart beating lustily.” Who acts: you. 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 87

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Speak with clean lips and say truly why you have come hither with healthy body and with red heart beating lustily.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** speak, say, come, beat · **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), 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:pg66819:14:87
# text = Speak with clean lips and say truly why you have come hither with healthy body and with red heart beating lustily.”
1	Speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
12	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
20	beating	beat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
21	lustily	lustily	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with clean lips | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with lip=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | truly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | with healthy body; hither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **beat** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with red heart; lustily *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with heart=Theme |

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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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