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title: “Never under the silver moon will I taste of food till my desire is… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Never under the silver moon will I taste of food till my desire is granted me—till I have leave to take and wed the maiden who is the desire of my heart.” Who acts: silver moon, hero, leave, maiden. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents, w
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 18

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“Never under the silver moon will I taste of food till my desire is granted me—till I have leave to take and wed the maiden who is the desire of my heart.”

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**Who acts:** silver moon, hero, leave, maiden, my · **What happens:** taste, grant, have, take, wed, be · **To what, where:** desire, leave, maiden

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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 (silver moon, hero, leave, maiden), 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:pg66819:24:18
# text = “Never under the silver moon will I taste of food till my desire is granted me—till I have leave to take and wed the maiden who is the desire of my heart.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
3	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	wed	wed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** *in a quote* | future | the silver moon |  |  |  |  | of food; I *nsubj* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **grant** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | my desire |  |  |  | me *obj* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal i=Theme |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the hero *= hero* | leave |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | leave *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wed** *in a quote* | infinitive | leave *not said here* | the maiden |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Patient |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the maiden | the desire |  |  |  | of my heart | tree rules |
| 7 | **desire** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling 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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