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title: Make haste and put up a luncheon for him—something that will stay hi… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Make haste and put up a luncheon for him—something that will stay his hunger in the middle of the day, for he will be far from home and the noon sun is hot in the lonely hill pastures.” Who acts: you, slave, noon sun. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Sl
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 26

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Make haste and put up a luncheon for him—something that will stay his hunger in the middle of the day, for he will be far from home and the noon sun is hot in the lonely hill pastures.”

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**Who acts:** you, slave, noon sun · **What happens:** make, put up, stay, be, hunger · **To what, where:** haste, luncheon, hunger, middle, home, lonely hill pastures

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, slave, noon sun), 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:pg66819:29:26
# text = Make haste and put up a luncheon for him—something that will stay his hunger in the middle of the day, for he will be far from home and the noon sun is hot in the lonely hill pastures.”
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	luncheon	luncheon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	appos	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
28	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	pastures	pasture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | haste |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product |
| 2 | **put up** | participle | you *not said here* | a luncheon |  |  |  | for slave | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent luncheon=Goal |
| 3 | **stay** | future |  | slave's hunger |  | the middle of the day |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hunger=Location |
| 4 | **is** | future | slave |  |  | home |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | the noon sun |  |  | the lonely hill pastures |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **hunger** |  | slave |  |  |  |  |  | nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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