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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 43

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For how can any one, without net or tackle, catch and subdue the Great Pike? and how can I hope to drag him from the sluggish water and bring his head hither to the Mistress of Pohyola?

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** any, catch, subdue, hope, drag, bring · **To what, where:** one, Great Pike, pike, sluggish water, head, Mistress

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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, 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:pg66819:25:43
# text = For how can any one, without net or tackle, catch and subdue the Great Pike? and how can I hope to drag him from the sluggish water and bring his head hither to the Mistress of Pohyola?
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	any	any	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	tackle	tackle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	catch	catch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	subdue	subdue	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Great	Great	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Pike	Pike	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	drag	drag	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	sluggish	sluggish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **any** | can | you *not said here* | one |  |  |  | without net or tackle | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **subdue** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the Great Pike |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pike=Patient |
| 4 | **hope** | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **drag** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | pike |  | the sluggish water |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from water=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **bring** | infinitive | I *not said here* | pike's head | the Mistress of Pohyola |  |  | hither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme to mistress=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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