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title: Why is it that you, the prince of wizards, cannot find some way to b… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Why is it that you, the prince of wizards, cannot find some way to bless and save our own kinsmen, our own people?” Who acts: Land, you. 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 50

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Why is it that you, the prince of wizards, cannot find some way to bless and save our own kinsmen, our own people?”

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**Who acts:** Land, you · **What happens:** be, not find, bless, save · **To what, where:** way, own kinsmen

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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 (Land, you), 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:pg66819:32:50
# text = Why is it that you, the prince of wizards, cannot find some way to bless and save our own kinsmen, our own people?”
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	wizards	wizard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	bless	bless	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
21	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	kinsmen	kinsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Land |  |  |  |  | that you; the prince of wizards *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **find** | can | you | some way |  |  |  | our own people *obl* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 3 | **bless** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | some way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **save** | infinitive | you *not said here* | our own kinsmen |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kinsman=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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