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title: Of grain and fruit there is no end, and no man nor woman, child nor… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Of grain and fruit there is no end, and no man nor woman, child nor dog, knows the meaning of hunger.” Who acts: end, man. 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 47

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Of grain and fruit there is no end, and no man nor woman, child nor dog, knows the meaning of hunger.”

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**Who acts:** end, man · **What happens:** be, know, mean · **To what, where:** meaning, hunger

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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 (end, man), 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:pg66819:32:47
# text = Of grain and fruit there is no end, and no man nor woman, child nor dog, knows the meaning of hunger.”
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	14	cc	_	_
14	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	18	cc	_	_
18	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
20	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | no end |  |  | there |  | of grain and fruit | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | present | no man nor woman and child nor dog | the meaning of hunger |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus |
| 3 | **mean** |  |  | hunger |  |  |  |  | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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