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title: “O sea, so vast, so grand, remember that we are small and weak, and… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “O sea, so vast, so grand, remember that we are small and weak, and deal gently with us! Who acts: sea, we. 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 142

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“O sea, so vast, so grand, remember that we are small and weak, and deal gently with us!

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**Who acts:** sea, we · **What happens:** remember, be, deal · **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 Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea, we), 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:pg66819:36:142
# text = “O sea, so vast, so grand, remember that we are small and weak, and deal gently with us!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
21	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** *in a quote* | infinitive | sea |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* |  | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **deal** *in a quote* | infinitive | sea *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with us; gently *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with we=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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