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title: Here it is, written in runes on a white whalebone: — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Here it is, written in runes on a white whalebone: Who acts: magician. 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 every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 59

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Here it is, written in runes on a white whalebone:

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**Who acts:** magician · **What happens:** be, write · **To what, where:** runes

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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 (magician), 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:pg66819:9:59
# text = Here it is, written in runes on a white whalebone:
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	runes	rune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	whalebone	whalebone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | magician |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **write** | participle |  |  |  | runes |  | on a white whalebone | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in rune=Destination |

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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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