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title: “So, bring hither the great bull of Carelia and let him be slaughter… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “So, bring hither the great bull of Carelia and let him be slaughtered. Who acts: you, bull. 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 11

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“So, bring hither the great bull of Carelia and let him be slaughtered.

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**Who acts:** you, bull · **What happens:** bring, let, slaughter · **To what, where:** great bull, bull

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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, bull), 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:pg66819:27:11
# text = “So, bring hither the great bull of Carelia and let him be slaughtered.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Carelia	Carelia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	slaughtered	slaughter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | the great bull of Carelia |  |  | hither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bull=Destination |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | bull |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **slaughter** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive | bull *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP» |

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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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