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title: Work quickly, work powerfully, and help us soon to arrive safe in Wa… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Work quickly, work powerfully, and help us soon to arrive safe in Wainola’s sheltered harbor!” Who acts: you. 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 77

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Work quickly, work powerfully, and help us soon to arrive safe in Wainola’s sheltered harbor!”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** work, help, arrive, shelter · **To what, where:** us, sheltered harbor

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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 (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:pg66819:37:77
# text = Work quickly, work powerfully, and help us soon to arrive safe in Wainola’s sheltered harbor!”
1	Work	work	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	work	work	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	powerfully	powerfully	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	help	help	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	arrive	arrive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	Wainola	Wainola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	sheltered	shelter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	harbor	harbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **work** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | powerfully *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **help** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | us |  |  | soon *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **arrive** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | Wainola's sheltered harbor |  | safe *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **shelter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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