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title: Note G, page 321.—Old Persian books tell us that at an early period… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Note G, page 321.—Old Persian books tell us that at an early period the climate of some distant northern countries was so mild that they enjoyed nine months of summer with only three months of winter. Who acts: you, Old Persian books, climate, books. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Ol
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 161

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Note G, page 321.—Old Persian books tell us that at an early period the climate of some distant northern countries was so mild that they enjoyed nine months of summer with only three months of winter.

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**Who acts:** you, Old Persian books, climate, books, distant northern countries · **What happens:** note, tell, be, enjoy, acclimate · **To what, where:** G, us, early period · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Old Persian books, climate, books), 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:pg66819:38:161
# text = Note G, page 321.—Old Persian books tell us that at an early period the climate of some distant northern countries was so mild that they enjoyed nine months of summer with only three months of winter.
1	Note	note	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	G	G	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	321	321	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nmod:unmarked	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
22	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
31	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod:unmarked	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	only	only	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	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* | G and page |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent g=Topic |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Old Persian books |  | us |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | past | the climate of some distant northern countries |  |  | a early period |  | mild *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **enjoy** | past | books *= book* |  |  |  | month; summer |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **acclimate** |  | some distant northern countries |  |  |  |  |  | nom climate «state intransitive»: of=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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