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title: “Not only three words have I learned, but a hundred; and a thousand… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Not only three words have I learned, but a hundred; and a thousand wonderful secrets do I know—secrets which the master of knowledge whispered in my ear.” Who acts: thousand wonderful secrets, secrets. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper, wi
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 114

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“Not only three words have I learned, but a hundred; and a thousand wonderful secrets do I know—secrets which the master of knowledge whispered in my ear.”

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**Who acts:** thousand wonderful secrets, secrets · **What happens:** learn, know, master, whisper · **To what, where:** three words, secrets, knowledge, ear

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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 (thousand wonderful secrets, secrets), 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:pg66819:17:114
# text = “Not only three words have I learned, but a hundred; and a thousand wonderful secrets do I know—secrets which the master of knowledge whispered in my ear.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | three words |  |  |  | a hundred *obl*; I *nsubj* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | a thousand wonderful secrets | secrets and the master |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus |
| 3 | **master** *in a quote* |  | secrets and the master |  |  |  |  | of knowledge | tree rules |
| 4 | **whisper** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | participle |  | knowledge *not said here* |  | my ear |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=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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