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title: Tell me, my friend, why should Iron bear a grudge against you? — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Tell me, my friend, why should Iron bear a grudge against you? Who acts: you, Iron. 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 159

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Tell me, my friend, why should Iron bear a grudge against you?

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**Who acts:** you, Iron · **What happens:** tell, bear · **To what, where:** me, grudge · **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 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, Iron), 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:pg66819:4:159
# text = Tell me, my friend, why should Iron bear a grudge against you?
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	grudge	grudge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	against	against	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  | my friend *vocative* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 2 | **bear** | should | Iron | a grudge |  |  |  | against you | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grudge=Patient |

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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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