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title: As for my escape—well, I escaped by promising to send you to the Fro… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: As for my escape—well, I escaped by promising to send you to the Frozen Land, my dear brother.” Who acts: I, my. 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 61

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As for my escape—well, I escaped by promising to send you to the Frozen Land, my dear brother.”

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** escape, promise, send · **To what, where:** dear brother, you

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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, my), 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:pg66819:7:61
# text = As for my escape—well, I escaped by promising to send you to the Frozen Land, my dear brother.”
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	escape	escape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	promising	promise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Frozen	Frozen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escape** | past | I |  |  |  |  | as my escape | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **send** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my dear brother | you |  |  | to the Frozen Land | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to land=Destination |
| 4 | **escape** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom escape «act intransitive»: 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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