--- title: “Just so,” rejoined the aged one; “and you surely remember the noble… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: “Just so,” rejoined the aged one; “and you surely remember the noble reindeer and the swift sledge that I lent him, so that he might return to his home land?” Who acts: you, Maid, Beauty. 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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 (you, Maid, Beauty), 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:pg66819:23:15 # text = “Just so,” rejoined the aged one; “and you surely remember the noble reindeer and the swift sledge that I lent him, so that he might return to his home land?” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Just just ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 6 rejoined rejoin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 aged aged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 surely surely ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 remember remember VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 noble noble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 reindeer reindeer NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 swift swift ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 sledge sledge NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 obj _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 lent lend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 32 mark _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 fixed _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 home home ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ? ? PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rejoin** | past | | the aged one | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **remember** *in a quote* | present | you | the noble reindeer and the swift sledge | | | | surely *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent reindeer=Theme | | 3 | **lend** *in a quote* | past | the Maid of Beauty *= maid* | the swift sledge | | | | Beauty *obj* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent that=Recipient he=Theme | | 4 | **return** *in a quote* | might | Beauty | | | | | to Beauty's home land *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to land=Result | 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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/23/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/23/16/) - ↑ back to [The Old Man’s Wooing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/23/)