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title: Much better it will be for us to share it like friends than to fight… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Much better it will be for us to share it like friends than to fight for it and then lose it.” Who acts: us, it. 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 46

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Much better it will be for us to share it like friends than to fight for it and then lose it.”

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**Who acts:** us, it · **What happens:** share, be, fight, lose · **To what, where:** Sampo

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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 (us, it), 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:pg66819:38:46
# text = Much better it will be for us to share it like friends than to fight for it and then lose it.”
1	Much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	csubj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
13	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | to-infinitive | us | Sampo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | future | it |  |  |  |  | like friends; well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fight** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for Sampo | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lose** | present |  | Sampo |  |  | then |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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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