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title: If you should gaze towards the mountain top or the sky, sad misfortu… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: If you should gaze towards the mountain top or the sky, sad misfortune will befall you. Who acts: you, sad misfortune. 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 164

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If you should gaze towards the mountain top or the sky, sad misfortune will befall you.

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**Who acts:** you, sad misfortune · **What happens:** gaze, befall · **To what, where:** 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, sad misfortune), 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:pg66819:2:164
# text = If you should gaze towards the mountain top or the sky, sad misfortune will befall you.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	gaze	gaze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
5	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	befall	befall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gaze** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | you |  |  |  |  | towards the mountain top or the sky | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards top=Theme |
| 2 | **befall** | future | sad misfortune | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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