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title: “I will carry it out,” answered Ahti, the nimble, long-armed fisherm… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “I will carry it out,” answered Ahti, the nimble, long-armed fisherman. Who acts: Ahti. 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 29

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“I will carry it out,” answered Ahti, the nimble, long-armed fisherman.

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**Who acts:** Ahti · **What happens:** carry out, answer · **To what, where:** cave · **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 (Ahti), 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:pg66819:36:29
# text = “I will carry it out,” answered Ahti, the nimble, long-armed fisherman.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Ahti	Ahti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
13	nimble	nimble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry out** *in a quote* | future | Ahti | cave |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Ahti |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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