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title: If you are fooling me, you shall have no trinket nor ring nor precio… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: If you are fooling me, you shall have no trinket nor ring nor precious jewel—for I will teach you not to hinder me with trifles.” Who acts: you, I. 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
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 55

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If you are fooling me, you shall have no trinket nor ring nor precious jewel—for I will teach you not to hinder me with trifles.”

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** fool, have, teach, not hinder · **To what, where:** me, trinket, you

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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, I), 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:pg66819:20:55
# text = If you are fooling me, you shall have no trinket nor ring nor precious jewel—for I will teach you not to hinder me with trifles.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fooling	fool	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	trinket	trinket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	13	cc	_	_
13	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	16	cc	_	_
15	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	jewel	jewel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	hinder	hinder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	trifles	trifle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fool** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · progressive | you | me |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | shall | you | no trinket nor ring nor precious jewel |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trinket=Patient |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | future | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **hinder** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | me |  |  |  | with trifles | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer i=Eventuality |

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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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