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title: So, let my sledge be made ready and the steed harnessed before it, a… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: So, let my sledge be made ready and the steed harnessed before it, and I will bid you good-bye.” Who acts: you, sledge, 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.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 129

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So, let my sledge be made ready and the steed harnessed before it, and I will bid you good-bye.”

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**Who acts:** you, sledge, I · **What happens:** let, make, harness, bid · **To what, where:** sledge, steed, you

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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 (you, sledge, 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:pg66819:5:129
# text = So, let my sledge be made ready and the steed harnessed before it, and I will bid you good-bye.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	sledge	sledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
8	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	harnessed	harness	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	bid	bid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	bye	bye	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | my sledge |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive · passive | my sledge *not said here* | the steed |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
| 3 | **harness** | participle |  | the steed *not said here* |  |  | before steed |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **bid** | future | I | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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