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title: Give these to the one whom you choose to follow. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Give these to the one whom you choose to follow. Who acts: you. 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 clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 37

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Give these to the one whom you choose to follow.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** give, choose, follow · **To what, where:** these, one

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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), 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:pg66819:23:37
# text = Give these to the one whom you choose to follow.
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nmod	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	choose	choose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | these | the one |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Theme to one=Recipient |
| 2 | **choose** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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