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title: If you try again to deceive me, I will command the East Wind to fall… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: If you try again to deceive me, I will command the East Wind to fall upon your pretty vessel and sink it in the sea. Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 105

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If you try again to deceive me, I will command the East Wind to fall upon your pretty vessel and sink it in the sea.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** try, deceive, command, fall, sink · **To what, where:** me, East Wind, pretty vessel, vessel, sea · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning. 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:pg66819:19:105
# text = If you try again to deceive me, I will command the East Wind to fall upon your pretty vessel and sink it in the sea.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	try	try	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	deceive	deceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	command	command	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  | again |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **deceive** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 3 | **command** | future | I | the East Wind |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wind=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | your pretty vessel |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon vessel=Location |
| 5 | **sink** | infinitive | I *not said here* | vessel |  | the sea |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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