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title: “Look around you and see your neighbors starving, dying—hear your ne… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Look around you and see your neighbors starving, dying—hear your neighbors’ children moaning, crying. Who acts: you, neighbors. 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 39

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“Look around you and see your neighbors starving, dying—hear your neighbors’ children moaning, crying.

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**Who acts:** you, neighbors · **What happens:** look, see, starve, die, hear, moan · **To what, where:** neighbors, children

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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 (you, neighbors), 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:pg66819:32:39
# text = “Look around you and see your neighbors starving, dying—hear your neighbors’ children moaning, crying.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	around	around	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	starving	starve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	dying	die	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	hear	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	moaning	moan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around you=Theme |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | your neighbors |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **starve** *in a quote* | gerund | your neighbors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **die** *in a quote* | gerund | your neighbors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **hear** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | your neighbors's children |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 6 | **moan** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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