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title: With it you can cleave the hardest rocks; with it you can vanquish a… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: With it you can cleave the hardest rocks; with it you can vanquish all your foes; with it you can carve for yourself great honor and fame.” Who acts: you. 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 ever
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 27

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With it you can cleave the hardest rocks; with it you can vanquish all your foes; with it you can carve for yourself great honor and fame.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** cleave, vanquish, carve · **To what, where:** hardest rocks, foes, great honor

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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), 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:pg66819:33:27
# text = With it you can cleave the hardest rocks; with it you can vanquish all your foes; with it you can carve for yourself great honor and fame.”
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	cleave	cleave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	hardest	hard	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	vanquish	vanquish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	foes	foe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	carve	carve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obl	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cleave** | can | you | the hardest rocks |  |  |  | with blade | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent rock=Patient with it=Instrument |
| 2 | **vanquish** | can | you | your foes |  |  |  | with blade | tree rules |
| 3 | **carve** | can | you | great honor and fame |  |  |  | with blade; for yourself | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent honor=Product for yourself=Asset |

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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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