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title: Can we believe that in the present story we have a faint reminiscenc… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Can we believe that in the present story we have a faint reminiscence of that very ancient time? Who acts: we, ancient time. 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 163

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Can we believe that in the present story we have a faint reminiscence of that very ancient time?

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**Who acts:** we, ancient time · **What happens:** believe, have, reminisce · **To what, where:** faint reminiscence, present story · **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 (we, ancient time), 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:pg66819:38:163
# text = Can we believe that in the present story we have a faint reminiscence of that very ancient time?
1	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	reminiscence	reminiscence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | can | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | present | we | a faint reminiscence of that ancient time |  | the present story |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reminiscence=Patient |
| 3 | **reminisce** |  | that ancient time |  |  |  |  |  | nom reminiscence «cognition 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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