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title: “Now, every child of Hero Land, listen to me,” he would say. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Now, every child of Hero Land, listen to me,” he would say. Who acts: child, courage. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hero’s Return, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 51

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“Now, every child of Hero Land, listen to me,” he would say.

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**Who acts:** child, courage · **What happens:** listen, say · **To what, where:** courage · **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 Hero’s Return. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, courage), 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:pg66819:16:51
# text = “Now, every child of Hero Land, listen to me,” he would say.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Hero	Hero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** *in a quote* | infinitive | every child of Hero Land |  | courage |  | now |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | courage |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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