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title: Dare not touch me, dare not threaten me, lest Jumala smite you with… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Dare not touch me, dare not threaten me, lest Jumala smite you with his swift and flashing arrows!” Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 104

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Dare not touch me, dare not threaten me, lest Jumala smite you with his swift and flashing arrows!”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not dare, not touch, not threaten, smite · **To what, where:** me, you

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents. 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:pg66819:24:104
# text = Dare not touch me, dare not threaten me, lest Jumala smite you with his swift and flashing arrows!”
1	Dare	dare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
8	threaten	threaten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Jumala	Jumala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
13	smite	smite	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	flashing	flashing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **dare** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **touch** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **not** **dare** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **threaten** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 5 | **smite** | present |  | you |  |  |  | lest Jumala; with Jumala's swift and flashing arrows | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Patient with swift=Instrument |

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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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