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title: Beware of the hornet, beware of his sting, Beware of the evils he su… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Beware of the hornet, beware of his sting, Beware of the evils he surely will bring; In all things be gentle, O Iron, my king— Cling, cling, clinkety cling!” Who acts: you, Help. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 17

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Beware of the hornet, beware of his sting, Beware of the evils he surely will bring; In all things be gentle, O Iron, my king— Cling, cling, clinkety cling!”

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**Who acts:** you, Help · **What happens:** beware, bring, be, sting · **To what, where:** evils, things

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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 (you, Help), 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:pg66819:7:17
# text = Beware of the hornet, beware of his sting, Beware of the evils he surely will bring; In all things be gentle, O Iron, my king— Cling, cling, clinkety cling!”
1	Beware	beware	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hornet	hornet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	beware	beware	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Beware	beware	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	evils	evil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	In	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Cling	cling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	cling	cling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	clinkety	clinkety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	cling	cling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beware** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the hornet; my king and Cling and cling *parataxis* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **beware** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Help's sting | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **beware** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the evils | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **bring** | future | Help | the evils *not said here* |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent evil=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  | all things |  | O *conj*; gentle *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **sting** |  | Help |  |  |  |  |  | nom sting «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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