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title: O Maiden, sink them all beneath the billows, but save the Sampo. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: O Maiden, sink them all beneath the billows, but save the Sampo. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 120

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O Maiden, sink them all beneath the billows, but save the Sampo.

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**What happens:** sink, save · **To what, where:** Maiden, Sampo

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66819:36:120
# text = O Maiden, sink them all beneath the billows, but save the Sampo.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	sink	sink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	billows	billow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | present |  | Maiden |  |  |  | beneath the billows; maidens *= maiden* *obj* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 2 | **save** | infinitive |  | the Sampo |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sampo=Theme |

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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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