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title: “Tell me,” he said, “is there any one in this house that can stop th… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Tell me,” he said, “is there any one in this house that can stop the flow of blood, that can heal the wounds of Iron?” Who acts: Wainamoinen, that, blood. 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 pragmati
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 26

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“Tell me,” he said, “is there any one in this house that can stop the flow of blood, that can heal the wounds of Iron?”

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**Who acts:** Wainamoinen, that, blood · **What happens:** tell, say, be, stop, heal, flow · **To what, where:** Wainamoinen, one, house, flow, wounds, Iron · **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 (Wainamoinen, that, blood), 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:pg66819:4:26
# text = “Tell me,” he said, “is there any one in this house that can stop the flow of blood, that can heal the wounds of Iron?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	flow	flow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	heal	heal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | Wainamoinen |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Wainamoinen |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | any one |  | this house |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stop** *in a quote* | can | that | the flow of blood |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality flow=Eventuality |
| 5 | **heal** *in a quote* | can | that | the wounds of Iron |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wound=Patient |
| 6 | **flow** *in a quote* |  | blood |  |  |  |  |  | nom flow «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 7 | **wound** *in a quote* |  |  | Iron |  |  |  |  | nom wound «state transitive»: of=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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