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title: “O, my eagle,” answered the Smith, “carry me swiftly towards the lan… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “O, my eagle,” answered the Smith, “carry me swiftly towards the land of Tuonela, fly with speed and pause not till the sluggish, silent river is beneath you. Who acts: eagle. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Great Pike, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 64

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“O, my eagle,” answered the Smith, “carry me swiftly towards the land of Tuonela, fly with speed and pause not till the sluggish, silent river is beneath you.

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**Who acts:** eagle · **What happens:** answer, carry, fly, not pause, be · **To what, where:** Smith, eagle, land · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (eagle), 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:pg66819:25:64
# text = “O, my eagle,” answered the Smith, “carry me swiftly towards the land of Tuonela, fly with speed and pause not till the sluggish, silent river is beneath you.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Tuonela	Tuonela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	pause	pause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
28	till	till	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
30	sluggish	sluggish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | my eagle |  | the Smith |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent smith=Eventuality |
| 2 | **carry** *in a quote* | infinitive | my eagle *not said here* | my eagle *= eagle* |  | the land of Tuonela |  | swiftly *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme towards land=Destination |
| 3 | **fly** *in a quote* | infinitive | my eagle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with speed | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **pause** *in a quote* | present | my eagle *not said here* |  |  |  | till the sluggish silent river |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | my eagle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beneath the Smith *= smith* | tree rules |

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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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