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title: Bring me a drop of your honey; bring the sweet liquor which you suck… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Bring me a drop of your honey; bring the sweet liquor which you suck from the meadow flower; bring the magic dew of the wildwood. Who acts: you. 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 85

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Bring me a drop of your honey; bring the sweet liquor which you suck from the meadow flower; bring the magic dew of the wildwood.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** bring, suck · **To what, where:** drop, me, sweet liquor, meadow flower, magic dew

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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), 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:pg66819:5:85
# text = Bring me a drop of your honey; bring the sweet liquor which you suck from the meadow flower; bring the magic dew of the wildwood.
1	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	liquor	liquor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	suck	suck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	wildwood	wildwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | imperative | you *not said here* | a drop of your honey | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination drop=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the sweet liquor |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent liquor=Theme |
| 3 | **suck** | present | you | the sweet liquor |  | the meadow flower |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent which=Theme from flower=Source |
| 4 | **bring** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the magic dew of the wildwood |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dew=Theme |

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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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