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title: Right before him, so near that he might have touched her with his ha… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Right before him, so near that he might have touched her with his hand, stood the Maid of Beauty. Who acts: Ilmarinen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 9

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Right before him, so near that he might have touched her with his hand, stood the Maid of Beauty.

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen · **What happens:** touch, stand · **To what, where:** Dame, Maid

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilmarinen), 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:pg66819:12:9
# text = Right before him, so near that he might have touched her with his hand, stood the Maid of Beauty.
1	Right	right	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	before	before	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
6	near	near	ADP	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
11	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Maid	Maid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | might · perfect | Ilmarinen | Dame |  |  |  | with Ilmarinen's hand | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Experiencer with hand=Instrument |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  | the Maid of Beauty |  |  | before Ilmarinen |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent maid=Theme before he=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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