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title: If you will describe it I will tell you what that name is and also s… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: If you will describe it I will tell you what that name is and also some strange things which no other minstrel knows.” Who acts: you, I, name, other minstrel. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 119

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If you will describe it I will tell you what that name is and also some strange things which no other minstrel knows.”

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**Who acts:** you, I, name, other minstrel · **What happens:** describe, tell, be, know · **To what, where:** Sampo, you, strange things · **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, 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, I, name, other minstrel), 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:pg66819:2:119
# text = If you will describe it I will tell you what that name is and also some strange things which no other minstrel knows.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
17	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | Sampo |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | that name |  |  |  |  | some strange things *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | present | no other minstrel | some strange things |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |

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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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