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title: Lastly, you must pick your way between the points of glistening spea… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Lastly, you must pick your way between the points of glistening spears and the edges of gleaming battle-axes. Who acts: you, edges. 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 31

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Lastly, you must pick your way between the points of glistening spears and the edges of gleaming battle-axes.

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**Who acts:** you, edges · **What happens:** pick, glisten, gleam, point · **To what, where:** way, battle axes, glistening spears

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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, edges), 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:pg66819:17:31
# text = Lastly, you must pick your way between the points of glistening spears and the edges of gleaming battle-axes.
1	Lastly	lastly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	glistening	glisten	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
19	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	axes	ax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **pick** | must | you | your way |  |  |  | between the points of glistening spears and the edges; lastly *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient |
| 2 | **glisten** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **gleam** | gerund | the edges *not said here* | battle axes |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ax=Theme |
| 4 | **point** |  |  | glistening spears and the edges |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition 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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