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title: “And I promise that with my magic skill I will put that one together… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “And I promise that with my magic skill I will put that one together,” said the Smith; “but what can you tell me about its ingredients? Who acts: I, Smith, you. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Recipe, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 56

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“And I promise that with my magic skill I will put that one together,” said the Smith; “but what can you tell me about its ingredients?

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**Who acts:** I, Smith, you · **What happens:** promise, put, say, tell · **To what, where:** one, Smith · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Recipe. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Smith, 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:pg66819:9:56
# text = “And I promise that with my magic skill I will put that one together,” said the Smith; “but what can you tell me about its ingredients?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	promise	promise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	_
15	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	obj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	iobj	_	_
29	about	about	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	ingredients	ingredient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **put** *in a quote* | future | I | one |  |  |  | with my magic skill; together *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Goal |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the Smith |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | can | you |  | the Smith *= smith* |  |  | about skill's ingredients; what *obj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Topic |

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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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