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title: All that I can ever do in this Frozen Land is to sigh and weep; and… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: All that I can ever do in this Frozen Land is to sigh and weep; and I shall sigh and weep till my eyes are out and my voice is gone forever.” Who acts: I, All, eyes, voice. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel, with its dependency tree and
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 90

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All that I can ever do in this Frozen Land is to sigh and weep; and I shall sigh and weep till my eyes are out and my voice is gone forever.”

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**Who acts:** I, All, eyes, voice · **What happens:** do, be, weep, sigh · **To what, where:** Frozen Land

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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 (I, All, eyes, voice), 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:pg66819:2:90
# text = All that I can ever do in this Frozen Land is to sigh and weep; and I shall sigh and weep till my eyes are out and my voice is gone forever.”
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nsubj:outer	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Frozen	Frozen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	sigh	sigh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	sigh	sigh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	out	out	ADV	RB	_	22	advcl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
33	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | can | I |  |  | Frozen Land  this | ever |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present | All |  |  |  |  | sigh *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **weep** | infinitive | All *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sigh** | shall | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **weep** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | my eyes |  |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | present | my voice |  |  |  |  | forever, gone *property* | 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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