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title: Groaning will not preserve you from evil, nor will grunting dispel m… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Groaning will not preserve you from evil, nor will grunting dispel misfortune.” 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 140

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Groaning will not preserve you from evil, nor will grunting dispel misfortune.”

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**What happens:** groan, not preserve, grunt, dispel · **To what, where:** you, misfortune

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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:pg66819:36:140
# text = Groaning will not preserve you from evil, nor will grunting dispel misfortune.”
1	Groaning	groan	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	preserve	preserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	11	cc	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	grunting	grunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
12	dispel	dispel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
13	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	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 | **groan** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **preserve** | future |  |  | you |  |  | from evil | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary from evil=Theme |
| 3 | **grunt** | future |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **dispel** | infinitive |  | misfortune |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent misfortune=Patient |

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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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