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title: So hear me, O Jumala, friend of the friendless!” — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: So hear me, O Jumala, friend of the friendless!” Who acts: you. 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 71

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So hear me, O Jumala, friend of the friendless!”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hear · **To what, where:** me

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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), 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:pg66819:29:71
# text = So hear me, O Jumala, friend of the friendless!”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	hear	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	8	case	_	_
6	Jumala	Jumala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	advcl	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	friendless	friendless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | Jumala friend *advcl* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |

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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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