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title: Wheresoever I go I am still a miserable slave and hard tasks are set… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Wheresoever I go I am still a miserable slave and hard tasks are set for me to do. Who acts: I, hard tasks. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 66

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Wheresoever I go I am still a miserable slave and hard tasks are set for me to do.

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**Who acts:** I, hard tasks · **What happens:** go, be, do · **To what, where:** miserable slave

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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 (I, hard tasks), 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:pg66819:29:66
# text = Wheresoever I go I am still a miserable slave and hard tasks are set for me to do.
1	Wheresoever	wheresoever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
5	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tasks	task	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | I |  |  |  |  | wheresoever *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | I | a miserable slave |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | hard tasks |  |  |  |  | for me; set *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | hard tasks *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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