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title: Nay, nay, keep silent, and sing no songs till we sight the shores of… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Nay, nay, keep silent, and sing no songs till we sight the shores of our own fair land.” Who acts: you. 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 66

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Nay, nay, keep silent, and sing no songs till we sight the shores of our own fair land.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** keep, sing · **To what, where:** songs

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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), 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:pg66819:36:66
# text = Nay, nay, keep silent, and sing no songs till we sight the shores of our own fair land.”
1	Nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	till	till	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | you *not said here* | no songs |  |  | till sight  we | the shores of our own fair land *obj* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent song=Beneficiary shore=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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