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title: “That I will do, father,” answered the young man; and with a basket… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “That I will do, father,” answered the young man; and with a basket on his arm and a glad song rising from his lips, he hastened away. Who acts: That, young man, glad song, man. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son, with its dependency
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 81

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“That I will do, father,” answered the young man; and with a basket on his arm and a glad song rising from his lips, he hastened away.

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**Who acts:** That, young man, glad song, man · **What happens:** do, answer, rise, hasten away · **To what, where:** father, lips · **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 (That, young man, glad song, man), 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:pg66819:4:81
# text = “That I will do, father,” answered the young man; and with a basket on his arm and a glad song rising from his lips, he hastened away.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
26	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
33	away	away	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | future | That | father |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Eventuality |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the young man |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rise** | gerund | a glad song *not said here* |  |  | man's lips |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from lip=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **hasten away** | past | man |  |  |  |  | with a basket on man's arm and a glad song; away *property* | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with basket=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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