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title: Men call you the sweet singer of Hero Land, and they say that no oth… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Men call you the sweet singer of Hero Land, and they say that no other songs cheer the dreary hours of winter as yours do. Who acts: Men, other songs, yours. 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
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 66

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Men call you the sweet singer of Hero Land, and they say that no other songs cheer the dreary hours of winter as yours do.

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**Who acts:** Men, other songs, yours · **What happens:** call, say, cheer, do · **To what, where:** you · **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 (Men, other songs, yours), 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:pg66819:2:66
# text = Men call you the sweet singer of Hero Land, and they say that no other songs cheer the dreary hours of winter as yours do.
1	Men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	singer	singer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Hero	Hero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	cheer	cheer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	dreary	dreary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | Men |  | you |  |  | the sweet singer of Hero *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **cheer** | present | no other songs |  |  |  | hour |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **do** | present | yours |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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