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title: So I have come boldly to Tuonela to borrow the tools which I desire… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: So I have come boldly to Tuonela to borrow the tools which I desire so greatly—the three lost words that shall make my boat seaworthy and safe. Who acts: I, three, words. 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
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 95

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So I have come boldly to Tuonela to borrow the tools which I desire so greatly—the three lost words that shall make my boat seaworthy and safe.

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**Who acts:** I, three, words · **What happens:** come, borrow, desire, lose, make · **To what, where:** Tuonela, tools, words, boat

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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 (I, three, words), 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:pg66819:14:95
# text = So I have come boldly to Tuonela to borrow the tools which I desire so greatly—the three lost words that shall make my boat seaworthy and safe.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	boldly	boldly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Tuonela	Tuonela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	borrow	borrow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	desire	desire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nsubj	_	_
20	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
21	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	seaworthy	seaworthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present · perfect | I |  |  | Tuonela |  | boldly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to tuonela=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **borrow** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the tools |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Theme |
| 3 | **desire** | present | I | the tools |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=Theme |
| 4 | **lose** | past | the three | words |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality |
| 5 | **make** | shall | words | my boat |  |  |  | seaworthy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset boat=Product |

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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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