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title: “Who will bring my tears back to me?” asked Wainamoinen, his voice t… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Who will bring my tears back to me?” asked Wainamoinen, his voice trembling while his long fingers still played upon the harp strings. Who acts: voice, long fingers. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 101

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“Who will bring my tears back to me?” asked Wainamoinen, his voice trembling while his long fingers still played upon the harp strings.

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**Who acts:** voice, long fingers · **What happens:** bring back, ask, tremble, play · **To what, where:** tears, me, Wainamoinen · **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 Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, long fingers), 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:pg66819:35:101
# text = “Who will bring my tears back to me?” asked Wainamoinen, his voice trembling while his long fingers still played upon the harp strings.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
12	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring back** *in a quote* | future |  | my tears | me |  |  | Who *nsubj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tear=Theme to i=Destination |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | Wainamoinen |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent wainamoinen=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **tremble** | gerund | Wainamoinen's voice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **play** | past | Wainamoinen's long fingers |  |  |  | still | upon the harp strings | vn performance-26.7-1 «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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