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title: Save yourself while you may, foolish fellow, foolish fellow!” — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Save yourself while you may, foolish fellow, foolish fellow!” Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tempest, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 14

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Save yourself while you may, foolish fellow, foolish fellow!”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** save · **To what, where:** yourself

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tempest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg66819:8:14
# text = Save yourself while you may, foolish fellow, foolish fellow!”
1	Save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	iobj	_	_
3	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | yourself |  |  | foolish fellow and foolish fellow *parataxis* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=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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