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title: “O thou noble branch of rowan, bring only friends. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “O thou noble branch of rowan, bring only friends. Who acts: thou, noble branch. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 125

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“O thou noble branch of rowan, bring only friends.

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**Who acts:** thou, noble branch · **What happens:** branch, bring · **To what, where:** friends

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, noble branch), 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:pg66819:22:125
# text = “O thou noble branch of rowan, bring only friends.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
4	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	rowan	rowan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **branch** *in a quote* |  | thou |  |  |  |  | of rowan | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive | noble branch |  | friends |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument friend=Destination |

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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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