--- title: “O thou pretty branch of rowan, bring good luck, bring fortune only,… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: “O thou pretty branch of rowan, bring good luck, bring fortune only, bring peace to all who dwell here—bring joy to our home and home land,” softly murmured the Maid of Beauty. Who acts: pretty branch, Maid. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretty branch, Maid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66819:22:127 # text = “O thou pretty branch of rowan, bring good luck, bring fortune only, bring peace to all who dwell here—bring joy to our home and home land,” softly murmured the Maid of Beauty. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 O o INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ _ 3 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 pretty pretty 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 36 ccomp _ _ 10 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 14 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 only only ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 18 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 17 obl _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 dwell dwell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 — - PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 26 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ” " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 35 softly softly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 murmured murmur VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Maid Maid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Beauty Beauty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive | thou's pretty branch of rowan | good luck | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme | | 2 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive | thou's pretty branch of rowan *not said here* | fortune | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme | | 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive | thou's pretty branch of rowan *not said here* | peace | | all | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent peace=Theme to all=Destination | | 4 | **dwell** *in a quote* | present | | | | here | | who *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive | thou's pretty branch of rowan *not said here* | joy | | our home and home land | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent joy=Theme to home=Destination | | 6 | **murmur** *speech: other* | past | the Maid of Beauty | | | | | softly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/22/126/) - next →: [sentence 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/22/128/) - ↑ back to [The Barking Dogs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/22/)