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title: “You have but to name some wonderful act and forthwith I will perfor… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “You have but to name some wonderful act and forthwith I will perform it. Who acts: You, Dame. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 107

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“You have but to name some wonderful act and forthwith I will perform it.

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**Who acts:** You, Dame · **What happens:** have, name, perform · **To what, where:** wonderful act, act

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Dame), 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:pg66819:2:107
# text = “You have but to name some wonderful act and forthwith I will perform it.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	name	name	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
8	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	forthwith	forthwith	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	perform	perform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **name** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | some wonderful act |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent act=Theme |
| 3 | **perform** *in a quote* | future | Dame | act |  |  |  | forthwith *property* | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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