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title: Nor could they readily agree by what road they should journey to Poh… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Nor could they readily agree by what road they should journey to Pohyola, whether by sea or whether by land. Who acts: Nor, road. 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 2

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Nor could they readily agree by what road they should journey to Pohyola, whether by sea or whether by land.

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**Who acts:** Nor, road · **What happens:** agree, journey · **To what, where:** Pohyola

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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 (Nor, road), 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:pg66819:33:2
# text = Nor could they readily agree by what road they should journey to Pohyola, whether by sea or whether by land.
1	Nor	Nor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	agree	agree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	obl	_	_
8	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | could | Nor |  |  |  |  | heroes *= hero* *nsubj*; what *obl*; sea or land *parataxis*; readily *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **journey** | should | road |  | Pohyola |  |  | heroes *= hero* *nsubj* | 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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