--- title: On it I am hoping to sail to that distant, dismal country of which y… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: On it I am hoping to sail to that distant, dismal country of which you have often heard me talk—to Pohyola, the Frozen Land, where wild men live under the ground and eat each other. Who acts: vessel, you, wild men. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vessel, you, wild men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66819:19:115 # text = On it I am hoping to sail to that distant, dismal country of which you have often heard me talk—to Pohyola, the Frozen Land, where wild men live under the ground and eat each other. 1 On on SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 hoping hope VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 sail sail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 9 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 nsubj _ _ 10 distant distant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 dismal dismal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 obl _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 often often ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 acl:relcl _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 — - PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Pohyola Pohyola PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 Frozen Frozen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 Land Land PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 33 advmod _ _ 31 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 34 under under ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 39 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 38 obj _ _ 40 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hope** | present · progressive | vessel | | | | | I *nsubj* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **sail** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | vessel *not said here* | | | distant dismal country that | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to country=Trajectory | | 3 | **hear** | present · perfect | you | me | | | | of distant dismal country that; often *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 4 | **talk** | infinitive | vessel *not said here* | | Pohyola | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to pohyola=Co-Agent | | 5 | **live** | present | wild men | | | the ground | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under ground=Location | | 6 | **eat** | present | wild men *not said here* | each | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/19/114/) - next →: [sentence 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/19/116/) - ↑ back to [The Maid of the Morning](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/19/)