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title: “Rise, O fountain of knowledge! — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Rise, O fountain of knowledge! 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.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 81

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“Rise, O fountain of knowledge!

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** rise

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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), 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:pg66819:17:81
# text = “Rise, O fountain of knowledge!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Rise	rise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	5	case	_	_
5	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of fountain of knowledge | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of fountain=Initial\_Location |

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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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