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title: I am going to seek the mighty giant, even Wipunen, the all-knowing. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: I am going to seek the mighty giant, even Wipunen, the all-knowing. Who acts: I, all. 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 44

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I am going to seek the mighty giant, even Wipunen, the all-knowing.

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**Who acts:** I, all · **What happens:** go, seek, know · **To what, where:** mighty giant, Wipunen

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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 (I, all), 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:pg66819:17:44
# text = I am going to seek the mighty giant, even Wipunen, the all-knowing.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	Wipunen	Wipunen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present · progressive | I |  |  |  |  | Wipunen *xcomp* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **seek** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the mighty giant |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | gerund | all | Wipunen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wipunen=Stimulus |

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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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