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title: “Never did I think that Fate would carry me to the cold and misty sh… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Never did I think that Fate would carry me to the cold and misty shores of Pohyola, the Frozen Land; but it happened even so. Who acts: Minstrel, Fate, it. 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 cl
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 46

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“Never did I think that Fate would carry me to the cold and misty shores of Pohyola, the Frozen Land; but it happened even so.

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**Who acts:** Minstrel, Fate, it · **What happens:** not think, carry, happen · **To what, where:** Minstrel, cold shores

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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 (Minstrel, Fate, it), 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:pg66819:7:46
# text = “Never did I think that Fate would carry me to the cold and misty shores of Pohyola, the Frozen Land; but it happened even so.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	Fate	Fate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	misty	misty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Frozen	Frozen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past · do-support | the Minstrel *= minstrel* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** *in a quote* | would | Fate | the Minstrel *= minstrel* |  | the cold shores of Pohyola |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to shore=Destination |
| 3 | **happen** *in a quote* | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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