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title: “O great Jumala let thy arm Protect this little ship from harm; Make… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “O great Jumala let thy arm Protect this little ship from harm; Make its weak captain brave and strong, And listen to his humble song. Who acts: great Jumala, arm, Jumala. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 46

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“O great Jumala let thy arm Protect this little ship from harm; Make its weak captain brave and strong, And listen to his humble song.

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**Who acts:** great Jumala, arm, Jumala · **What happens:** let, protect, make, listen, sing · **To what, where:** little ship, weak captain

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great Jumala, arm, Jumala), 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:pg66819:18:46
# text = “O great Jumala let thy arm Protect this little ship from harm; Make its weak captain brave and strong, And listen to his humble song.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Jumala	Jumala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	Protect	protect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	xcomp	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** *in a quote* | past | great Jumala |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **protect** *in a quote* | present | thy arm | this little ship |  |  |  | from harm | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent ship=Beneficiary from harm=Theme |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | great Jumala *not said here* | arm's weak captain |  |  |  | brave *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset captain=Product |
| 4 | **listen** *in a quote* | infinitive | great Jumala *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Jumala's humble song | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme |
| 5 | **sing** *in a quote* |  | Jumala |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: 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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