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title: “Bring hither my stool,” says the wife and helpmate, “and give me th… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Bring hither my stool,” says the wife and helpmate, “and give me the new pail of polished cedar. Who acts: wife. 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 49

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“Bring hither my stool,” says the wife and helpmate, “and give me the new pail of polished cedar.

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** bring, say, give, polish · **To what, where:** stool, new pail, wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (wife), 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:pg66819:30:49
# text = “Bring hither my stool,” says the wife and helpmate, “and give me the new pail of polished cedar.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
3	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	stool	stool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	helpmate	helpmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	pail	pail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	polished	polish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	cedar	cedar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | my stool |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent stool=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the wife and helpmate |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | the wife and helpmate *not said here* | the new pail of polished cedar | the wife and helpmate *= wife* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pail=Theme |
| 4 | **polish** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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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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