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title: “’Tis thus that the merry springtime journeys to the Frozen Land! — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “’Tis thus that the merry springtime journeys to the Frozen Land! Who acts: merry springtime. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 153

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“’Tis thus that the merry springtime journeys to the Frozen Land!

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**Who acts:** merry springtime · **What happens:** journey · **To what, where:** Tis, Frozen Land

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merry springtime), 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:pg66819:20:153
# text = “’Tis thus that the merry springtime journeys to the Frozen Land!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Tis	Tis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	springtime	springtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	journeys	journey	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Frozen	Frozen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **journey** *in a quote* | present | the merry springtime | Tis | the Frozen Land |  |  | thus *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to land=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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