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title: For those who are honest and true and deserving, I spin joy and hono… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: For those who are honest and true and deserving, I spin joy and honor and length of days; for those who are false and cruel and selfish, I spin grief and punishment and an early journey to Tuoni’s kingdom.” Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 9

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For those who are honest and true and deserving, I spin joy and honor and length of days; for those who are false and cruel and selfish, I spin grief and punishment and an early journey to Tuoni’s kingdom.”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be, deserve, spin · **To what, where:** joy, grief

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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:pg66819:15:9
# text = For those who are honest and true and deserving, I spin joy and honor and length of days; for those who are false and cruel and selfish, I spin grief and punishment and an early journey to Tuoni’s kingdom.”
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	deserving	deserve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	spin	spin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
13	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	conj	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	selfish	selfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	spin	spin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
33	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	Tuoni	Tuoni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’s	's	PART	POS	_	41	case	_	_
43	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; honest *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **deserve** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **spin** | present | I | joy and honor and length of days |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent joy=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; selfish *conj*; false *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **spin** | present | I | grief and punishment and a early journey to Tuoni's kingdom |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grief=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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