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title: “Yes, dear Minstrel, but why should I climb?” asked Ilmarinen. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Yes, dear Minstrel, but why should I climb?” asked Ilmarinen. Who acts: I. 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 123

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“Yes, dear Minstrel, but why should I climb?” asked Ilmarinen.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** climb, ask · **To what, where:** Ilmarinen · **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), 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:pg66819:7:123
# text = “Yes, dear Minstrel, but why should I climb?” asked Ilmarinen.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** *in a quote* | should | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | Ilmarinen |  |  | dear Minstrel *nsubj* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ilmarinen=Recipient |

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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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