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title: He has sent me to this dreary Frozen Land to do a task too great for… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He has sent me to this dreary Frozen Land to do a task too great for his skill, too wonderful for his magic. Who acts: Wainamoinen. 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 65

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He has sent me to this dreary Frozen Land to do a task too great for his skill, too wonderful for his magic.

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**Who acts:** Wainamoinen · **What happens:** send, do · **To what, where:** me, dreary, task

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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 (Wainamoinen), 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:pg66819:8:65
# text = He has sent me to this dreary Frozen Land to do a task too great for his skill, too wonderful for his magic.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	dreary	dreary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	Frozen	Frozen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	too	too	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | present · perfect | Wainamoinen | me |  | this dreary |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to dreary=Destination |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | Wainamoinen *not said here* | a task |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality |

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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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