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title: What proof shall I offer that the Great Pike has indeed been taken?” — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: What proof shall I offer that the Great Pike has indeed been taken?” Who acts: proof. 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 99

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What proof shall I offer that the Great Pike has indeed been taken?”

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**Who acts:** proof · **What happens:** offer, take · **To what, where:** Great Pike

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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 (proof), 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:pg66819:25:99
# text = What proof shall I offer that the Great Pike has indeed been taken?”
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Great	Great	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Pike	Pike	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | shall | what proof |  |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | present · perfect · passive |  | the Great Pike |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=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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