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title: And when the time comes for you to cross the dark river you need hav… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the time comes for you to cross the dark river you need have no fears of King Tuoni, for messengers of light will lead you into the valley of rest prepared for the good and the true. Who acts: time, you, dark river, messengers. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by Ja
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 55

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And when the time comes for you to cross the dark river you need have no fears of King Tuoni, for messengers of light will lead you into the valley of rest prepared for the good and the true.

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**Who acts:** time, you, dark river, messengers · **What happens:** come, cross, need, have, lead, prepare · **To what, where:** dark river, fears, you, valley, rest, King Tuoni

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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 (time, you, dark river, messengers), 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:pg66819:16:55
# text = And when the time comes for you to cross the dark river you need have no fears of King Tuoni, for messengers of light will lead you into the valley of rest prepared for the good and the true.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	fears	fear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Tuoni	Tuoni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | the time |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cross** | to-infinitive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **need** | present | you | the dark river *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot river=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | the dark river | no fears of King Tuoni |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient |
| 5 | **lead** | future | messengers of light | you |  | the valley of rest |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme into valley=Destination |
| 6 | **prepare** | participle |  | rest *not said here* |  |  |  | for the good | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for good=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **fear** |  |  | King Tuoni |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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