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title: “I have performed my task and now I come to claim my own—the Maid of… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “I have performed my task and now I come to claim my own—the Maid of Beauty for whom I have waited and toiled.” Who acts: Ilmarinen, my. 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 6

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“I have performed my task and now I come to claim my own—the Maid of Beauty for whom I have waited and toiled.”

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen, my · **What happens:** perform, come, claim, wait, toil, task · **To what, where:** task, own

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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 (Ilmarinen, my), 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:pg66819:25:6
# text = “I have performed my task and now I come to claim my own—the Maid of Beauty for whom I have waited and toiled.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	performed	perform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	claim	claim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Maid	Maid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	obl	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	waited	wait	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	toiled	toil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perform** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Ilmarinen | my task |  |  |  | the Maid of Beauty *obl*; whom *obl* | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent task=Theme for whom=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | present | Ilmarinen |  |  |  | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **claim** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Ilmarinen *not said here* | my own |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent own=Topic |
| 4 | **wait** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Ilmarinen |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **toil** *in a quote* | participle | Ilmarinen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **task** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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