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title: “Friend and brother,” he said, breathing fast with eagerness, “I hav… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Friend and brother,” he said, breathing fast with eagerness, “I have come to ask your help. Who acts: Friend, your. 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 42

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“Friend and brother,” he said, breathing fast with eagerness, “I have come to ask your help.

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**Who acts:** Friend, your · **What happens:** say, breathe, come, ask, help · **To what, where:** help · **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 (Friend, your), 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:pg66819:17:42
# text = “Friend and brother,” he said, breathing fast with eagerness, “I have come to ask your help.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	eagerness	eagerness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Friend and brother |  |  |  |  | Minstrel *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **breathe** | gerund | Friend and brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with eagerness; fast *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Friend and brother *= friend* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Friend and brother *= friend* *not said here* | your help |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent help=Recipient |
| 5 | **help** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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