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title: “It is a thing so strange and so difficult that I must have time to… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “It is a thing so strange and so difficult that I must have time to consider my strength. Who acts: head, Wainamoinen. 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 133

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“It is a thing so strange and so difficult that I must have time to consider my strength.

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**Who acts:** head, Wainamoinen · **What happens:** be, have, consider · **To what, where:** thing, strength

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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 (head, Wainamoinen), 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:pg66819:2:133
# text = “It is a thing so strange and so difficult that I must have time to consider my strength.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | head | a thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | must | Wainamoinen |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **consider** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Wainamoinen *not said here* | my strength |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent strength=Attribute |

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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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