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title: You have in mind some trick of cunning, and you shall sail no farthe… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: You have in mind some trick of cunning, and you shall sail no farther in your pretty boat until you tell me truly what that trick is.” Who acts: You, trick. 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 pragmatic
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 90

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You have in mind some trick of cunning, and you shall sail no farther in your pretty boat until you tell me truly what that trick is.”

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**Who acts:** You, trick · **What happens:** have, sail, tell, be, trick · **To what, where:** mind, pretty boat, me, cunning · **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, trick), 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:pg66819:19:90
# text = You have in mind some trick of cunning, and you shall sail no farther in your pretty boat until you tell me truly what that trick is.”
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	ccomp	_	_
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | You |  |  | mind |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sail** | shall | you |  |  | your pretty boat |  | far *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | you |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | that trick |  |  |  |  | truly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **trick** |  |  | cunning |  |  |  |  | nom trick «act 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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