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title: Whither are you journeying so gayly, so fleetly, so like a bridegroo… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Whither are you journeying so gayly, so fleetly, so like a bridegroom going to his wedding?” Who acts: you, bridegroom. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Friendly Rivals, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 26

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Whither are you journeying so gayly, so fleetly, so like a bridegroom going to his wedding?”

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**Who acts:** you, bridegroom · **What happens:** journey, go, wed · **To what, where:** wedding

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Friendly Rivals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bridegroom), 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:pg66819:21:26
# text = Whither are you journeying so gayly, so fleetly, so like a bridegroom going to his wedding?”
1	Whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	journeying	journey	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	gayly	gayly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	fleetly	fleetly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
15	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **journey** | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  | a bridegroom *parataxis*; fleetly, gayly, whither *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | a bridegroom *not said here* |  |  | bridegroom's wedding |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wedding=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **wed** |  | bridegroom |  |  |  |  |  | nom wedding «event 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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