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title: You shall bake my honey cakes, fill my cups with barley-water, sing… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: You shall bake my honey cakes, fill my cups with barley-water, sing at my table. Who acts: You. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of Beauty, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 31

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You shall bake my honey cakes, fill my cups with barley-water, sing at my table.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** bake, fill, sing · **To what, where:** honey cakes, cups, table

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of Beauty. 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:pg66819:3:31
# text = You shall bake my honey cakes, fill my cups with barley-water, sing at my table.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bake	bake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bake** | shall | You | my honey cakes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Product |
| 2 | **fill** | infinitive | You *not said here* | my cups |  |  |  | with barley water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cup=Patient with water=Instrument |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  | my table |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at table=Location |

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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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