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title: “I thank you for your welcome, wise queen of the North,” responded t… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “I thank you for your welcome, wise queen of the North,” responded the Minstrel; “but I cannot sit at your fireside, I cannot eat at your table, I cannot rest by your shores until I tell you the object of my visit, the reason for my coming.” Who acts: Minstrel, your, my. A sentence of «The Sampo: A 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 58

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“I thank you for your welcome, wise queen of the North,” responded the Minstrel; “but I cannot sit at your fireside, I cannot eat at your table, I cannot rest by your shores until I tell you the object of my visit, the reason for my coming.”

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**Who acts:** Minstrel, your, my · **What happens:** thank, respond, not sit, not eat, not rest, tell · **To what, where:** you, fireside, table, object, reason · **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 (Minstrel, your, my), 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:pg66819:23:58
# text = “I thank you for your welcome, wise queen of the North,” responded the Minstrel; “but I cannot sit at your fireside, I cannot eat at your table, I cannot rest by your shores until I tell you the object of my visit, the reason for my coming.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	welcome	welcome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
16	responded	respond	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	fireside	fireside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	parataxis	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
42	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
45	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
46	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
48	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	47	iobj	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	appos	_	_
57	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
58	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
59	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	56	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | the Minstrel *= minstrel* |  | you |  |  | for your welcome | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for welcome=Attribute |
| 2 | **respond** *speech: other* | past | the Minstrel |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **sit** *in a quote* | can | the Minstrel *= minstrel* |  |  | your fireside |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at fireside=Location |
| 4 | **not** **eat** *in a quote* | can | the Minstrel *= minstrel* |  |  | your table |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **rest** *in a quote* | can | the Minstrel *= minstrel* |  |  |  |  | by your shores | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent by shore=Location |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | the Minstrel *= minstrel* | the object of my visit | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient object=Topic |
| 7 | **come** *in a quote* | gerund | the Minstrel *= minstrel* | the reason *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location reason=Theme |
| 8 | **welcome** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom welcome «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **visit** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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