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title: Surely that will heal your ear-drums, surely that will ease your thr… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Surely that will heal your ear-drums, surely that will ease your throbbing head.” Who acts: that. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 21

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Surely that will heal your ear-drums, surely that will ease your throbbing head.”

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** heal, ease · **To what, where:** ear drums, throbbing head

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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:pg66819:30:21
# text = Surely that will heal your ear-drums, surely that will ease your throbbing head.”
1	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	heal	heal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	ease	ease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	throbbing	throbbing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heal** | future | that | your ear drums |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent drum=Patient |
| 2 | **ease** | future | that | your throbbing head |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient |

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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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