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title: “Fetch it quickly that we may see the hero’s eyes whether they are b… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Fetch it quickly that we may see the hero’s eyes whether they are blue or grayish, whether they are green or brownish.” Who acts: you, we, eyes. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 63

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“Fetch it quickly that we may see the hero’s eyes whether they are blue or grayish, whether they are green or brownish.”

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**Who acts:** you, we, eyes · **What happens:** fetch, see, be · **To what, where:** pine, eyes

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we, eyes), 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:pg66819:26:63
# text = “Fetch it quickly that we may see the hero’s eyes whether they are blue or grayish, whether they are green or brownish.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	grayish	grayish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	brownish	brownish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fetch** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | pine |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | may | we | the hero's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  | blue *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* |  | eyes *= eye* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  | green *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** *in a quote* |  | eyes *= eye* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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