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title: This poem is remarkable for its great length and its tiresome, monot… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: This poem is remarkable for its great length and its tiresome, monotonous metre—qualities which discourage English readers from attempting its acquaintance. Who acts: poem, qualities. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo, with its dependen
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 145

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This poem is remarkable for its great length and its tiresome, monotonous metre—qualities which discourage English readers from attempting its acquaintance.

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**Who acts:** poem, qualities · **What happens:** be, discourage, attempt, acquaint · **To what, where:** English readers, acquaintance

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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 (poem, qualities), 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:pg66819:38:145
# text = This poem is remarkable for its great length and its tiresome, monotonous metre—qualities which discourage English readers from attempting its acquaintance.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
11	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	monotonous	monotonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	metre	metre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	qualities	quality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	discourage	discourage	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	readers	reader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	attempting	attempt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	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 | **is** | present | this poem |  |  |  |  | for poem's great length and poem's tiresome monotonous metre; remarkable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **discourage** | present | qualities | English readers |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus reader=Experiencer |
| 3 | **attempt** | gerund | qualities *not said here* | poem's acquaintance |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acquaintance=Eventuality |
| 4 | **acquaint** |  | poem |  |  |  |  |  | nom acquaintance «cognition 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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