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title: Take the fine cake from the basket where the old cook so kindly plac… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Take the fine cake from the basket where the old cook so kindly placed it. 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 85

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Take the fine cake from the basket where the old cook so kindly placed it.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take, place · **To what, where:** fine cake, basket, cake

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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:pg66819:29:85
# text = Take the fine cake from the basket where the old cook so kindly placed it.
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | the fine cake |  | the basket  the old cook |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent cake=Theme from basket=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **place** | participle | you *not said here* | cake |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=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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