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title: As you know, it is not the habit of minstrels to carry weapons, and… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: As you know, it is not the habit of minstrels to carry weapons, and I have neither spear nor club. Who acts: you, way, I. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 12

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As you know, it is not the habit of minstrels to carry weapons, and I have neither spear nor club.

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**Who acts:** you, way, I · **What happens:** know, not be, carry, have · **To what, where:** habit, weapons, spear

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, way, I), 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:pg66819:33:12
# text = As you know, it is not the habit of minstrels to carry weapons, and I have neither spear nor club.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	minstrels	minstrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	22	cc	_	_
22	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | way | the habit |  |  |  | of minstrels | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry** | to-infinitive | way *not said here* | weapons |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | I | neither spear nor club |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=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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