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title: “We must pursue the hated robbers; we must overcome and destroy them… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “We must pursue the hated robbers; we must overcome and destroy them and bring the precious Sampo back to our own shores. Who acts: We. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Pursuit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 10

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“We must pursue the hated robbers; we must overcome and destroy them and bring the precious Sampo back to our own shores.

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** pursue, hate, overcome, destroy, bring · **To what, where:** hated robbers, robbers, precious Sampo, own shores

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Pursuit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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:pg66819:37:10
# text = “We must pursue the hated robbers; we must overcome and destroy them and bring the precious Sampo back to our own shores.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	pursue	pursue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	hated	hate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	overcome	overcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pursue** *in a quote* | must | We | the hated robbers |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Theme |
| 2 | **hate** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **overcome** *in a quote* | must | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **destroy** *in a quote* | infinitive | we *not said here* | robbers *= robber* |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive | we *not said here* | the precious Sampo |  | our own shores |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sampo=Theme to shore=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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