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title: “I will drain the sea, I will level the mountains, I will snatch the… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “I will drain the sea, I will level the mountains, I will snatch the moon from its place in the sky if you so command me. Who acts: hero, 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 claus
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 27

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“I will drain the sea, I will level the mountains, I will snatch the moon from its place in the sky if you so command me.

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**Who acts:** hero, you · **What happens:** drain, level, snatch, command · **To what, where:** sea, mountains, moon, place, hero · **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 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 (hero, 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:pg66819:24:27
# text = “I will drain the sea, I will level the mountains, I will snatch the moon from its place in the sky if you so command me.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	drain	drain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	level	level	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	snatch	snatch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	command	command	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drain** *in a quote* | future | the hero *= hero* | the sea |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sea=Source |
| 2 | **level** *in a quote* | future | the hero *= hero* | the mountains |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient |
| 3 | **snatch** *in a quote* | future | the hero *= hero* | the moon |  | task's place in the sky |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent moon=Theme from place=Source |
| 4 | **command** *in a quote* | infinitive | you | the hero *= hero* |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent i=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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