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title: “Now let every one work valiantly at his oar,” said Ilmarinen, “and… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Now let every one work valiantly at his oar,” said Ilmarinen, “and let the red sail be hoisted on the mast.” Who acts: Ilmarinen. 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 43

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“Now let every one work valiantly at his oar,” said Ilmarinen, “and let the red sail be hoisted on the mast.”

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen · **What happens:** let, say, hoist · **To what, where:** one work, oar, red sail, mast · **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 (Ilmarinen), 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:pg66819:36:43
# text = “Now let every one work valiantly at his oar,” said Ilmarinen, “and let the red sail be hoisted on the mast.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	valiantly	valiantly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	oar	oar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	hoisted	hoist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	mast	mast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | every one work |  | hero's oar | now | valiantly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent work=Theme at oar=Asset |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ilmarinen |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hoist** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive |  | the red sail |  | the mast |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on mast=Destination |

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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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