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title: Note B, page 2.—The Frozen Land may have been identical with modern… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Note B, page 2.—The Frozen Land may have been identical with modern Lapland. Who acts: you, Frozen Land. 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 147

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Note B, page 2.—The Frozen Land may have been identical with modern Lapland.

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**Who acts:** you, Frozen Land · **What happens:** note, be · **To what, where:** B

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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 (you, Frozen Land), 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:pg66819:38:147
# text = Note B, page 2.—The Frozen Land may have been identical with modern Lapland.
1	Note	note	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	B	B	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Frozen	Frozen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
14	identical	identical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Lapland	Lapland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **note** | imperative | you *not said here* | B |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent b=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | may · perfect | the Frozen Land |  |  |  |  | with modern Lapland; identical *property* | tree rules |

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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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