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title: From him you may learn a hundred wisdom words—yes, a thousand volume… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: From him you may learn a hundred wisdom words—yes, a thousand volumes of wisdom words—if you will only do that which is required to earn such great knowledge. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 23

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From him you may learn a hundred wisdom words—yes, a thousand volumes of wisdom words—if you will only do that which is required to earn such great knowledge.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** learn, do, require, earn · **To what, where:** hundred wisdom words, that, such great knowledge

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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 (you), 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:pg66819:17:23
# text = From him you may learn a hundred wisdom words—yes, a thousand volumes of wisdom words—if you will only do that which is required to earn such great knowledge.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	volumes	volume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	obj	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	ccomp	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	earn	earn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | may | you | hundred wisdom words |  |  |  | from man; thousand volumes of wisdom words *obl* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent word=Topic from he=Source |
| 2 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **require** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | which *nsubj:pass* | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **earn** | to-infinitive |  | such great knowledge |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=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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