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title: If you should gaze towards sky or mountain top, sad misfortune will… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: If you should gaze towards sky or mountain top, sad misfortune will befall you.” Who acts: you, sad misfortune. 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 94

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If you should gaze towards sky or mountain top, sad misfortune will befall you.”

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**Who acts:** you, sad misfortune · **What happens:** gaze, befall · **To what, where:** you

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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, sad misfortune), 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:pg66819:3:94
# text = If you should gaze towards sky or mountain top, sad misfortune will befall you.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	gaze	gaze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
5	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	befall	befall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gaze** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | you |  |  |  |  | towards sky or mountain top | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards sky=Theme |
| 2 | **befall** | future | sad misfortune | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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