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title: If you will permit me to return to my dear home land, to the Land of… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: If you will permit me to return to my dear home land, to the Land of Heroes, I will send him to you without delay.” Who acts: you, I. 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 147

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If you will permit me to return to my dear home land, to the Land of Heroes, I will send him to you without delay.”

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** permit, return, send · **To what, where:** me, dear home land, Ilmarinen, you

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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), 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:pg66819:2:147
# text = If you will permit me to return to my dear home land, to the Land of Heroes, I will send him to you without delay.”
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	permit	permit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
26	without	without	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **permit** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | me |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **return** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | my dear home land |  | to the Land of Heroes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to land=Initial\_Location to land=Destination |
| 3 | **send** | future | I | Ilmarinen | you |  |  | without delay | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to you=Destination |

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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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