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title: Let us see if the door is wide enough for him to pass through; let u… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Let us see if the door is wide enough for him to pass through; let us see if it is high enough to admit so great a hero.” Who acts: you, us, door, bridegroom. 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
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 83

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Let us see if the door is wide enough for him to pass through; let us see if it is high enough to admit so great a hero.”

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**Who acts:** you, us, door, bridegroom, hat · **What happens:** let, see, be, pass through, admit · **To what, where:** us, great hero

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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, us, door, bridegroom), 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:pg66819:27:83
# text = Let us see if the door is wide enough for him to pass through; let us see if it is high enough to admit so great a hero.”
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	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
9	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
17	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	ccomp	_	_
23	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	admit	admit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	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 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the door |  |  |  |  | enough, wide *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass through** | to-infinitive | bridegroom |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | hat |  |  |  |  | enough, high *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **admit** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | hat *not said here* | a great hero |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Theme |

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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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