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title: The three sisters intended that you should be a blessing to mankind;… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The three sisters intended that you should be a blessing to mankind; but now I greatly fear that you will become a curse.” Who acts: three sisters, you, I. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 122

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The three sisters intended that you should be a blessing to mankind; but now I greatly fear that you will become a curse.”

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**Who acts:** three sisters, you, I · **What happens:** intend, be, fear, become · **To what, where:** blessing, curse · **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 Wicked Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three sisters, you, I), 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:pg66819:5:122
# text = The three sisters intended that you should be a blessing to mankind; but now I greatly fear that you will become a curse.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	intended	intend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	fear	fear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **intend** | past | the three sisters |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | should | you | a blessing |  |  |  | to mankind | tree rules |
| 3 | **fear** | present | I |  |  |  | now | greatly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **become** | future | you | a curse |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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