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title: “Alas! this is all that I can recover for my poor country, my ruined… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Alas! this is all that I can recover for my poor country, my ruined people!” she screamed. 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 82

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“Alas! this is all that I can recover for my poor country, my ruined people!” she screamed.

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**What happens:** recover, ruin, be · **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: 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:pg66819:38:82
# text = “Alas! this is all that I can recover for my poor country, my ruined people!” she screamed.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	screamed	scream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recover** *in a quote* | can |  |  |  |  |  | for my poor country; I *nsubj* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ruin** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **be** *speech: express* | present |  |  |  |  |  | this *nsubj*; Pohyola *nsubj*; scream *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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