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title: “Wisest of smiths,” he said, “we are friends and brothers, and there… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Wisest of smiths,” he said, “we are friends and brothers, and therefore we must not fall out and quarrel. Who acts: Wisest, we. 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 31

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“Wisest of smiths,” he said, “we are friends and brothers, and therefore we must not fall out and quarrel.

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**Who acts:** Wisest, we · **What happens:** say, be, not fall out · **To what, where:** friends · **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 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 (Wisest, we), 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:pg66819:21:31
# text = “Wisest of smiths,” he said, “we are friends and brothers, and therefore we must not fall out and quarrel.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wisest	wise	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	smiths	smith	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	ccomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Wisest of smiths |  |  |  |  | Smith *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | we | friends and brothers |  |  |  | brothers *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **fall out** *in a quote* | must | we |  |  |  |  | quarrel *conj*; therefore *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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