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title: “With my long arms I can call forth the melodies that now lie slumbe… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “With my long arms I can call forth the melodies that now lie slumbering within it. Who acts: nimble Ahti, melodies. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 92

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“With my long arms I can call forth the melodies that now lie slumbering within it.

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**Who acts:** nimble Ahti, melodies · **What happens:** call, lie, slumber · **To what, where:** melodies · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nimble Ahti, melodies), 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:pg66819:34:92
# text = “With my long arms I can call forth the melodies that now lie slumbering within it.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	With	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	melodies	melody	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	slumbering	slumber	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	within	within	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *in a quote* | can | the nimble Ahti *= ahti* | the melodies |  |  |  | with my long arms; forth *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent melody=Recipient |
| 2 | **lie** *in a quote* | present | the melodies |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **slumber** *in a quote* | gerund | the melodies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | within instrument | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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