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title: “Who now will carry this Sampo out of its prison-house?” asked the M… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Who now will carry this Sampo out of its prison-house?” asked the Minstrel. 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 28

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“Who now will carry this Sampo out of its prison-house?” asked the Minstrel.

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**What happens:** carry, ask · **To what, where:** Sampo, prison house, Minstrel · **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: 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:pg66819:36:28
# text = “Who now will carry this Sampo out of its prison-house?” asked the Minstrel.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
16	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** *in a quote* | future |  | this Sampo |  | cave's prison house | now | Who *nsubj* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent sampo=Theme out house=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | the Minstrel |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent minstrel=Recipient clause=Topic |

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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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