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title: There, if you choose, you may fill the stones with anguish; you may… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: There, if you choose, you may fill the stones with anguish; you may rend the rocks with torment. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 141

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There, if you choose, you may fill the stones with anguish; you may rend the rocks with torment.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** choose, fill, rend · **To what, where:** stones, rocks

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg66819:4:141
# text = There, if you choose, you may fill the stones with anguish; you may rend the rocks with torment.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	choose	choose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	anguish	anguish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	rend	rend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	torment	torment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fill** | may | you | the stones |  | there |  | with anguish | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent stone=Patient with anguish=Instrument |
| 3 | **rend** | may | you | the rocks |  |  |  | with torment | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent rock=Patient with torment=Instrument |

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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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