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title: Take the cheap thing away and bring us better torches, torches made… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Take the cheap thing away and bring us better torches, torches made of white wax, cleanly and beautiful.” Who acts: you. 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 clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 69

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Take the cheap thing away and bring us better torches, torches made of white wax, cleanly and beautiful.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take, bring, make · **To what, where:** cheap thing, better torches, us, torches

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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), 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:pg66819:26:69
# text = Take the cheap thing away and bring us better torches, torches made of white wax, cleanly and beautiful.”
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	cheap	cheap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	torches	torch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	torches	torch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	cleanly	cleanly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | the cheap thing |  |  |  | away *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | infinitive | you *not said here* | better torches and torches | us |  |  | cleanly *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination torch=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | torches *not said here* |  |  |  | of white wax | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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