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title: “Then, if you will surely keep your promise, I will tell you all tha… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Then, if you will surely keep your promise, I will tell you all that I know, and tell you truly. Who acts: you, Ilmarinen, your. 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 52

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“Then, if you will surely keep your promise, I will tell you all that I know, and tell you truly.

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**Who acts:** you, Ilmarinen, your · **What happens:** keep, tell, know, promise · **To what, where:** promise, 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, 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, Ilmarinen, 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:pg66819:20:52
# text = “Then, if you will surely keep your promise, I will tell you all that I know, and tell you truly.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nmod:unmarked	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | you | your promise |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | Ilmarinen |  | you |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **know** *in a quote* | present | Ilmarinen |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | Ilmarinen *not said here* |  | you |  |  | truly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 5 | **promise** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: 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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