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title: “The wizard who sang my boards together bade me wait here for the he… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “The wizard who sang my boards together bade me wait here for the hero who is to guide me across the sea. Who acts: wizard, hero. 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 56

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“The wizard who sang my boards together bade me wait here for the hero who is to guide me across the sea.

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**Who acts:** wizard, hero · **What happens:** sing, bade, wait, be · **To what, where:** boards, boat, sea

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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 (wizard, hero), 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:pg66819:33:56
# text = “The wizard who sang my boards together bade me wait here for the hero who is to guide me across the sea.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	boards	board	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	guide	guide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	across	across	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | the wizard | my boards |  |  |  | together *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location board=Theme |
| 2 | **bade** *in a quote* | past | the wizard | the boat *= boat* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wait** *in a quote* | infinitive | the wizard *not said here* |  |  | here |  | for the hero | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the hero |  |  | the sea |  | me *obj*; guide *property* | 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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