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title: But no matter where I went, no matter what I did, my heart was alway… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: But no matter where I went, no matter what I did, my heart was always sick for my home land; I sighed for the dear friends I had left behind me.” Who acts: I, heart. 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
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 53

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But no matter where I went, no matter what I did, my heart was always sick for my home land; I sighed for the dear friends I had left behind me.”

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**Who acts:** I, heart · **What happens:** go, do, be, sigh, leave · **To what, where:** matter, dear friends

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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, heart), 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:pg66819:7:53
# text = But no matter where I went, no matter what I did, my heart was always sick for my home land; I sighed for the dear friends I had left behind me.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
18	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	home	home	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	sighed	sigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | I | no matter |  |  |  | no matter *obl* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past | I | no matter |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | past | my heart |  |  |  |  | for my home land; always, sick *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sigh** | past | I |  |  |  |  | for the dear friends | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for friend=Recipient |
| 5 | **leave** | past · perfect | I | the dear friends *not said here* |  |  |  | behind me | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent friend=Theme behind i=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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