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title: I will believe whatever you say, I will do whatever you bid—only, I… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: I will believe whatever you say, I will do whatever you bid—only, I will never go to Pohyola.” Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 117

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I will believe whatever you say, I will do whatever you bid—only, I will never go to Pohyola.”

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** believe, say, do, bid, not go · **To what, where:** whatever, Pohyola · **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 Smithy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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:pg66819:7:117
# text = I will believe whatever you say, I will do whatever you bid—only, I will never go to Pohyola.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	obj	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	bid	bid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | future | I | whatever |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whatever=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | future | I | whatever |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality |
| 4 | **bid** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **go** | future | I |  |  | Pohyola |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to pohyola=Initial\_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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