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title: “You must overcome him in fair battle, and then he will whisper swee… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “You must overcome him in fair battle, and then he will whisper sweet words of magic into your ear. Who acts: You, dwarf. 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 37

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“You must overcome him in fair battle, and then he will whisper sweet words of magic into your ear.

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**Who acts:** You, dwarf · **What happens:** overcome, whisper, word · **To what, where:** dwarf, sweet words, ear, magic

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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, dwarf), 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:pg66819:17:37
# text = “You must overcome him in fair battle, and then he will whisper sweet words of magic into your ear.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	overcome	overcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	whisper	whisper	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overcome** *in a quote* | must | You | dwarf |  |  |  | in fair battle | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot he=Theme in battle=Attribute |
| 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | dwarf | sweet words of magic |  | your ear | then |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic into ear=Recipient |
| 3 | **word** *in a quote* |  |  | magic |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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