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title: I would that we might keep him here forever—one hero in the flesh am… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: I would that we might keep him here forever—one hero in the flesh among a myriad of formless shades!” Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of the Rock, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 20

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I would that we might keep him here forever—one hero in the flesh among a myriad of formless shades!”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** keep · **To what, where:** man, myriad

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of the Rock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg66819:15:20
# text = I would that we might keep him here forever—one hero in the flesh among a myriad of formless shades!”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
9	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	among	among	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	myriad	myriad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	formless	formless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	shades	shade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | might | I | man |  | a myriad of formless shades; here |  | one hero in the flesh *obl*; that *nsubj*; we *nsubj*; forever *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme among myriad=Location |

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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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