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title: “I promise—yes, I swear to you that I will do naught that is dishono… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “I promise—yes, I swear to you that I will do naught that is dishonorable or unfair. Who acts: I. 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 42

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“I promise—yes, I swear to you that I will do naught that is dishonorable or unfair.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** promise, swear, do, be · **To what, where:** you, naught · **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 (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:pg66819:21:42
# text = “I promise—yes, I swear to you that I will do naught that is dishonorable or unfair.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	promise	promise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	swear	swear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
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	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
15	naught	naught	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	14	obj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	dishonorable	dishonorable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	unfair	unfair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **swear** *in a quote* | present | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | future | I | naught |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naught=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | dishonorable *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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