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title: “Who would believe that for the lack of only three words thou should… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Who would believe that for the lack of only three words thou shouldst lie here forever, unnoticed, unfinished, forgotten? Who acts: thou. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 10

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“Who would believe that for the lack of only three words thou shouldst lie here forever, unnoticed, unfinished, forgotten?

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** believe, lie, forget, lack · **To what, where:** three words · **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 Wisdom Keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou), 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:pg66819:17:10
# text = “Who would believe that for the lack of only three words thou shouldst lie here forever, unnoticed, unfinished, forgotten?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
14	shouldst	should	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
16	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
17	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	unnoticed	unnoticed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	unfinished	unfinished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** *in a quote* | would |  |  |  |  |  | Who *nsubj* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lie** *in a quote* | should | thou |  |  | here |  | for the lack of three words; forever *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **forget** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lack** *in a quote* |  |  | three words |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state 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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