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title: All your magic shall come to naught, for you shall never steal the M… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: All your magic shall come to naught, for you shall never steal the Maid of Beauty from her home land, never put her in your magic vessel, never carry her over the treacherous sea.” Who acts: magic, you. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Friendly Rivals, 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 29

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All your magic shall come to naught, for you shall never steal the Maid of Beauty from her home land, never put her in your magic vessel, never carry her over the treacherous sea.”

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**Who acts:** magic, you · **What happens:** come, not steal, not put, not carry · **To what, where:** naught, Maid, home land, magic, magic vessel, treacherous sea

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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 (magic, you), 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:pg66819:21:29
# text = All your magic shall come to naught, for you shall never steal the Maid of Beauty from her home land, never put her in your magic vessel, never carry her over the treacherous sea.”
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	naught	naught	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Maid	Maid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	home	home	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
33	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	over	over	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	treacherous	treacherous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | shall | your magic |  |  | naught |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to naught=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **steal** | shall | you | the Maid of Beauty |  | magic's home land |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent maid=Theme from land=Source |
| 3 | **not** **put** | infinitive | your magic *not said here* | magic |  | your magic vessel |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in vessel=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **carry** | infinitive | your magic *not said here* | magic |  | the treacherous sea |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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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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