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title: “Can this be the smithy, can this be the home which echoed to the me… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Can this be the smithy, can this be the home which echoed to the merry sounds of love and peace?” Who acts: this, home. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 13

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“Can this be the smithy, can this be the home which echoed to the merry sounds of love and peace?”

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**Who acts:** this, home · **What happens:** be, echo · **To what, where:** smithy, home

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, home), 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:pg66819:32:13
# text = “Can this be the smithy, can this be the home which echoed to the merry sounds of love and peace?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	smithy	smithy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
9	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	echoed	echo	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | can | this | the smithy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | can | this | the home |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **echo** *in a quote* | past | the home |  |  |  |  | to the merry sounds of love and peace | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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