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title: Come sit beside me in my sledge of magic, and I will carry you swift… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Come sit beside me in my sledge of magic, and I will carry you swiftly, safely to my own country, to my own dear fireside.” Who acts: you, I. 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 54

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Come sit beside me in my sledge of magic, and I will carry you swiftly, safely to my own country, to my own dear fireside.”

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** come, sit, carry · **To what, where:** sledge, you, own country

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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, I), 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:pg66819:24:54
# text = Come sit beside me in my sledge of magic, and I will carry you swiftly, safely to my own country, to my own dear fireside.”
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
3	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sledge	sledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	fireside	fireside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | my sledge of magic |  | beside me | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside i=Location |
| 3 | **carry** | future | I | you |  | my own country |  | to my own dear fireside; swiftly *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to country=Destination |

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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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