---
title: Nevertheless, I beg that I may find in this place some shelter till… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Nevertheless, I beg that I may find in this place some shelter till this fearful storm has passed.” Who acts: I, place. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/8/37/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old No…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/) / [The Tempest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/8/) / 37

# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 37

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nevertheless, I beg that I may find in this place some shelter till this fearful storm has passed.”

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** I, place · **What happens:** beg, find, pass · **To what, where:** place, shelter

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (I, place), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:8:37
# text = Nevertheless, I beg that I may find in this place some shelter till this fearful storm has passed.”
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	beg	beg	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	till	till	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | I |  |  |  |  | nevertheless *property* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | may | I |  |  | this place |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pass** | present · perfect · passive | this place *not said here* | some shelter till this fearful storm |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/8/36/)
- next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/8/38/)
- ↑ back to [The Tempest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/8/)