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title: “Good fortune comes to those who labor for it and who most deserve i… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Good fortune comes to those who labor for it and who most deserve it,” said Dame Louhi coldly. Who acts: Good fortune, Dame. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 43

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“Good fortune comes to those who labor for it and who most deserve it,” said Dame Louhi coldly.

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**Who acts:** Good fortune, Dame · **What happens:** come, labor, deserve, say · **To what, where:** those, fortune · **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 (Good fortune, Dame), 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:pg66819:35:43
# text = “Good fortune comes to those who labor for it and who most deserve it,” said Dame Louhi coldly.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	labor	labor	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	deserve	deserve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
20	Louhi	Louhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	coldly	coldly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present | Good fortune |  |  | those |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to that=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **labor** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | for fortune; who *nsubj* | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **deserve** *in a quote* | present |  | fortune |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dame |  |  |  |  | coldly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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