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title: Let it not fall into the raging sea, but hold it in thy large hands… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Let it not fall into the raging sea, but hold it in thy large hands and bring it safe back to Pohyola’s lovely shore.” Who acts: you, rage. 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 121

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Let it not fall into the raging sea, but hold it in thy large hands and bring it safe back to Pohyola’s lovely shore.”

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**Who acts:** you, rage · **What happens:** let, not fall, rage, hold, bring back · **To what, where:** rage, raging sea, large hands, lovely shore

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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: who acts (you, rage), 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:pg66819:36:121
# text = Let it not fall into the raging sea, but hold it in thy large hands and bring it safe back to Pohyola’s lovely shore.”
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	raging	rage	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | rage |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **fall** | infinitive | rage *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the raging sea *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sea=Result |
| 3 | **rage** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hold** | present |  | rage |  | thy large hands |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hand=Location |
| 5 | **bring back** | infinitive |  | rage |  | Pohyola's lovely shore |  | safe *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to shore=Destination |

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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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