---
title: “Yes, it is all,” was the answer; “for now I can think of nothing bu… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Yes, it is all,” was the answer; “for now I can think of nothing but my dear home land. Who acts: 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 every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/5/127/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old No…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/) / [The Wicked Hornet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/5/) / 127

# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 127

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
“Yes, it is all,” was the answer; “for now I can think of nothing but my dear home land.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be, think · **To what, where:** answer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:5:127
# text = “Yes, it is all,” was the answer; “for now I can think of nothing but my dear home land.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	obl	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	18	obl	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *speech: assert* | present |  | the answer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | can | I |  |  |  |  | of nothing  my dear home land | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/5/126/)
- next →: [sentence 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/5/128/)
- ↑ back to [The Wicked Hornet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/5/)