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title: “I went to the far North Land, to Pohyola’s shores, because the voic… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “I went to the far North Land, to Pohyola’s shores, because the voice of my dear lost Maid of Beauty seemed to call me thither. Who acts: Ilmarinen, voice, Maid. 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 eve
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 33

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“I went to the far North Land, to Pohyola’s shores, because the voice of my dear lost Maid of Beauty seemed to call me thither.

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen, voice, Maid · **What happens:** go, lose, seem, call · **To what, where:** far North Land, Ilmarinen · **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, 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 (Ilmarinen, voice, Maid), 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:pg66819:32:33
# text = “I went to the far North Land, to Pohyola’s shores, because the voice of my dear lost Maid of Beauty seemed to call me thither.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nmod	_	_
21	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	Maid	Maid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | past | Ilmarinen |  |  | the far North Land |  | to Pohyola's shores | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to land=Initial\_Location to shore=Destination |
| 2 | **lose** *in a quote* | past | the voice of my dear |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seem** *in a quote* | past | Maid of Beauty |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **call** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Maid of Beauty *not said here* |  | Ilmarinen |  |  | thither *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |

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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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