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title: Come and give life to this precious maiden; fill her veins with bloo… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Come and give life to this precious maiden; fill her veins with blood, give warmth to her body, sight to her eyes, hearing to her ears!” Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 122

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Come and give life to this precious maiden; fill her veins with blood, give warmth to her body, sight to her eyes, hearing to her ears!”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** come, give, fill, hear · **To what, where:** life, precious maiden, veins, warmth, eyes

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. 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:pg66819:31:122
# text = Come and give life to this precious maiden; fill her veins with blood, give warmth to her body, sight to her eyes, hearing to her ears!”
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	fill	fill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	veins	vein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	warmth	warmth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive | you *not said here* | life | this precious maiden |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent life=Theme to maiden=Recipient |
| 3 | **fill** | infinitive |  | maid's veins |  |  |  | with blood | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent vein=Patient with blood=Instrument |
| 4 | **give** | present |  | warmth and sight | maid's eyes |  |  | to maid's body | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent warmth=Theme to eye=Recipient |
| 5 | **hear** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to maid's ears | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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