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title: Bring with thee a magic feather—yes, two or three—that they may put… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Bring with thee a magic feather—yes, two or three—that they may put a charm upon this ship and protect it from disaster.” Who acts: you, cliffs. 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 148

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Bring with thee a magic feather—yes, two or three—that they may put a charm upon this ship and protect it from disaster.”

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**Who acts:** you, cliffs · **What happens:** bring, put, protect · **To what, where:** magic feather, charm, ship

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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, cliffs), 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:pg66819:36:148
# text = Bring with thee a magic feather—yes, two or three—that they may put a charm upon this ship and protect it from disaster.”
1	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	disaster	disaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | imperative | you *not said here* | a magic feather |  |  |  | with thee | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent feather=Destination yes=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | may | cliffs *= cliff* | a charm |  | this ship |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent charm=Theme upon ship=Destination |
| 3 | **protect** | infinitive | cliffs *= cliff* *not said here* | charm |  |  |  | from disaster | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary from disaster=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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