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title: “We are going to the Frozen Land, to the shores of Pohyola, where we… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “We are going to the Frozen Land, to the shores of Pohyola, where we shall ask Dame Louhi to share the Sampo with us.” Who acts: We. 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 142

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“We are going to the Frozen Land, to the shores of Pohyola, where we shall ask Dame Louhi to share the Sampo with us.”

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** go, ask, share · **To what, where:** Frozen Land, Dame, Sampo

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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 (We), 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:pg66819:33:142
# text = “We are going to the Frozen Land, to the shores of Pohyola, where we shall ask Dame Louhi to share the Sampo with us.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Frozen	Frozen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
20	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	Louhi	Louhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	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* | present · progressive | We |  |  | the Frozen Land |  | to the shores of Pohyola | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to land=Initial\_Location to shore=Destination |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | shall | we |  | Dame |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent dame=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **share** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | the Sampo |  |  |  | with us | tree rules |

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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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