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title: “You are gentle, you are harmless, but my magic spells should have w… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “You are gentle, you are harmless, but my magic spells should have wrought something far better and more beautiful. Who acts: You, magic spells, 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 cla
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 88

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“You are gentle, you are harmless, but my magic spells should have wrought something far better and more beautiful.

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**Who acts:** You, magic spells, my · **What happens:** be, have, spell · **To what, where:** something

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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, magic spells, 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:pg66819:31:88
# text = “You are gentle, you are harmless, but my magic spells should have wrought something far better and more beautiful.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
16	wrought	wrought	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	obj	_	_
18	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  | gentle *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | harmless *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | should | my magic spells | something |  |  |  | well *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 4 | **spell** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom spell «state transitive»: poss=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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