---
title: Waste no more time in idle talking. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Waste no more time in idle talking. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/17/55/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old No…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/) / [The Wisdom Keeper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/17/) / 55

# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 55

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Waste no more time in idle talking.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** waste · **To what, where:** idle talking

<!-- .vabout -->
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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:17:55
# text = Waste no more time in idle talking.
1	Waste	waste	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	talking	talking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **waste** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | idle talking | time |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/17/54/)
- next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/17/56/)
- ↑ back to [The Wisdom Keeper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/17/)