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title: Harder things than these will I do if only you will surely give me y… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Harder things than these will I do if only you will surely give me your daughter.” Who acts: Harder things, you. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Great Pike, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 31

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Harder things than these will I do if only you will surely give me your daughter.”

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**Who acts:** Harder things, you · **What happens:** do, give · **To what, where:** daughter

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Great Pike. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Harder things, 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:pg66819:25:31
# text = Harder things than these will I do if only you will surely give me your daughter.”
1	Harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	nmod	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | future | Harder things than these |  |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you |  | your daughter |  |  | me *iobj*; surely *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient daughter=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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