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title: “Never will the dead come to life again, never will my loved one ret… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Never will the dead come to life again, never will my loved one return to me. Who acts: my. 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 clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 128

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“Never will the dead come to life again, never will my loved one return to me.

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**Who acts:** my · **What happens:** come, love, return · **To what, where:** life

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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 (my), 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:pg66819:31:128
# text = “Never will the dead come to life again, never will my loved one return to me.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | future |  |  |  | life | again | my loved one return to me *parataxis* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **love** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **return** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  | to me | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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