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title: “You surely remember him, my daughter—how he came to us from the sea… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “You surely remember him, my daughter—how he came to us from the sea, how he sat at our fireside, how he ate from our table!” Who acts: You, hero. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Old Man’s Wooing, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 12

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“You surely remember him, my daughter—how he came to us from the sea, how he sat at our fireside, how he ate from our table!”

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**Who acts:** You, hero · **What happens:** remember, come, sit, eat · **To what, where:** hero, us, sea, fireside, table · **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 Old Man’s Wooing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, hero), 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:pg66819:23:12
# text = “You surely remember him, my daughter—how he came to us from the sea, how he sat at our fireside, how he ate from our table!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	fireside	fireside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** *in a quote* | present | You | hero |  |  |  | my daughter *obl*; surely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | past | hero |  | us | the sea |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to we=Initial\_Location from sea=Destination |
| 3 | **sit** *in a quote* | past | hero |  |  | our fireside |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at fireside=Location |
| 4 | **eat** *in a quote* | past | hero |  |  | our table |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from table=Source |

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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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