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title: “O thou great and good Creator, look down and hear our last petition. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “O thou great and good Creator, look down and hear our last petition. Who acts: thou, great Creator, our. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 132

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“O thou great and good Creator, look down and hear our last petition.

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**Who acts:** thou, great Creator, our · **What happens:** creator, look down, hear, petition · **To what, where:** last petition

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, great Creator, our), 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:pg66819:38:132
# text = “O thou great and good Creator, look down and hear our last petition.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	Creator	creator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	petition	petition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creator** *in a quote* |  | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look down** *in a quote* | infinitive | great Creator |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hear** *in a quote* | present | great Creator *not said here* | our last petition |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer petition=Stimulus |
| 4 | **petition** *in a quote* |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom petition «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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