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title: Give me I pray you three words of magic power—three words that I lac… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Give me I pray you three words of magic power—three words that I lack and greatly desire.” Who acts: you, I. 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 83

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Give me I pray you three words of magic power—three words that I lack and greatly desire.”

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** give, pray, lack, word · **To what, where:** three words, me, you, magic power

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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, I), 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:pg66819:17:83
# text = Give me I pray you three words of magic power—three words that I lack and greatly desire.”
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lack	lack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	greatly	greatly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | three words and greatly desire | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **pray** | present | I | you |  |  |  | three words of magic power *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lack** | present | I | three words and greatly desire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **word** |  |  | magic power |  |  |  |  | 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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