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title: Stay with us and cheer us with your sweet songs.” — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Stay with us and cheer us with your sweet songs.” Who acts: you, your. 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 86

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Stay with us and cheer us with your sweet songs.”

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**Who acts:** you, your · **What happens:** stay, cheer, sing · **To what, where:** us

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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, your), 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:pg66819:2:86
# text = Stay with us and cheer us with your sweet songs.”
1	Stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	cheer	cheer	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with us | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with we=Location |
| 2 | **cheer** | infinitive | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  | with your sweet songs | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer |
| 3 | **sing** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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