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title: No man can tell; for none can know whether Tuonela be in this place… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: No man can tell; for none can know whether Tuonela be in this place or in that, whether it is one day’s journey distant or an hundred. Who acts: man, none, Tuonela, river. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Great Pike, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 72

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No man can tell; for none can know whether Tuonela be in this place or in that, whether it is one day’s journey distant or an hundred.

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**Who acts:** man, none, Tuonela, river, one day · **What happens:** tell, know, be, journey · **To what, where:** place, one · **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 (man, none, Tuonela, river), 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:pg66819:25:72
# text = No man can tell; for none can know whether Tuonela be in this place or in that, whether it is one day’s journey distant or an hundred.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
10	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	Tuonela	Tuonela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | no man |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **know** | can | none |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | Tuonela |  |  | this place |  | that *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | river | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **journey** |  | one day |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «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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