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title: We will take it out of the cavern where it is grinding and we will c… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: We will take it out of the cavern where it is grinding and we will carry it far away to our own country to give comfort and joy to our neighbors and food and clothing to our loved ones.” Who acts: We, whole. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of M
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 56

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We will take it out of the cavern where it is grinding and we will carry it far away to our own country to give comfort and joy to our neighbors and food and clothing to our loved ones.”

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**Who acts:** We, whole · **What happens:** take, grind, carry, give · **To what, where:** whole, cavern, comfort, loved ones

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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 (We, whole), 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:pg66819:35:56
# text = We will take it out of the cavern where it is grinding and we will carry it far away to our own country to give comfort and joy to our neighbors and food and clothing to our loved ones.”
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cavern	cavern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	grinding	grind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
26	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	clothing	clothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	loved	loved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | future | We | whole |  | the cavern |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme out cavern=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **grind** | present · progressive | whole |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **carry** | future | we | whole |  |  |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | comfort and joy | our loved ones |  |  | to our neighbors and food and clothing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent comfort=Theme to neighbor=Recipient |

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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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