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title: Tell me now about your escape from that dismal land. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Tell me now about your escape from that dismal land. Who acts: you, your. 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 56

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Tell me now about your escape from that dismal land.

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**Who acts:** you, your · **What happens:** tell, escape · **To what, where:** me, dismal land · **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 (you, your), 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:pg66819:7:56
# text = Tell me now about your escape from that dismal land.
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	escape	escape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	dismal	dismal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | me |  | now | about your escape from that dismal land | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient about escape=Topic |
| 2 | **escape** |  | your |  |  | that dismal land |  |  | nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=agent from=place |

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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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