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title: Take him without using net or tackle and bring his head to me. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Take him without using net or tackle and bring his head to me. Who acts: 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 36

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Take him without using net or tackle and bring his head to me.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take, use, tackle, bring · **To what, where:** king, net, head, me

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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 (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:pg66819:25:36
# text = Take him without using net or tackle and bring his head to me.
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
5	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	tackle	tackle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | king |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 2 | **use** | gerund | you *not said here* | net |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Patient |
| 3 | **tackle** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bring** | infinitive | you *not said here* | king's head | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme to i=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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