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title: Let me go back to my lonely hiding-places and lie there in peace as… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Let me go back to my lonely hiding-places and lie there in peace as in the days of old.” Who acts: you, me. 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 72

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Let me go back to my lonely hiding-places and lie there in peace as in the days of old.”

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**Who acts:** you, me · **What happens:** let, go back, lie · **To what, where:** me, peace

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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, me), 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:pg66819:5:72
# text = Let me go back to my lonely hiding-places and lie there in peace as in the days of old.”
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
7	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	hiding	hiding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	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* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go back** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to my lonely hiding places *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result |
| 3 | **lie** | present | you *not said here* |  |  | peace; there | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in peace=Location |

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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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