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title: Let us therefore crave his blessing, All our prayers to him addressi… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Let us therefore crave his blessing, All our prayers to him addressing.” Who acts: you, prayers, Creator, our. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 107

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Let us therefore crave his blessing, All our prayers to him addressing.”

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**Who acts:** you, prayers, Creator, our · **What happens:** let, crave, address, bless, pray · **To what, where:** us, blessing

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, prayers, Creator, our), 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:pg66819:27:107
# text = Let us therefore crave his blessing, All our prayers to him addressing.”
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	crave	crave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	addressing	address	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 2 | **crave** | present | you *not said here* | Creator's blessing and our prayers to Creator |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot blessing=Theme |
| 3 | **address** | gerund | our prayers to Creator *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bless** |  | Creator |  |  |  |  |  | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **pray** |  | our |  |  |  |  | to Creator | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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