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title: Now, if you wish to know more you must make me a gold ring—yes, six… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, if you wish to know more you must make me a gold ring—yes, six gold rings to grace my pretty fingers.” Who acts: you, six gold rings. 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 40

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Now, if you wish to know more you must make me a gold ring—yes, six gold rings to grace my pretty fingers.”

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**Who acts:** you, six gold rings · **What happens:** wish, know, make, grace · **To what, where:** me, pretty fingers · **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, 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 (you, six gold rings), 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:pg66819:20:40
# text = Now, if you wish to know more you must make me a gold ring—yes, six gold rings to grace my pretty fingers.”
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	23	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	grace	grace	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **make** | must | you | me |  |  |  | a gold ring *xcomp* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product |
| 4 | **grace** | to-infinitive | six gold rings | my pretty fingers |  |  | now |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme finger=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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