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title: And oh, my dear child, do look pleasant, pretty, comely, and let you… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And oh, my dear child, do look pleasant, pretty, comely, and let your face be bright and cheerful.” Who acts: you, face. 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 77

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And oh, my dear child, do look pleasant, pretty, comely, and let your face be bright and cheerful.”

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**Who acts:** you, face · **What happens:** look, let, be · **To what, where:** face

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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, face), 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:pg66819:8:77
# text = And oh, my dear child, do look pleasant, pretty, comely, and let your face be bright and cheerful.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	comely	comely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | pleasant *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your face |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | your face *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | your face *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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