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title: The dwarfish maiden hesitated, standing beside her boat. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The dwarfish maiden hesitated, standing beside her boat. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 104

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The dwarfish maiden hesitated, standing beside her boat.

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**What happens:** hesitate, stand · **To what, where:** dwarfish maiden, boat

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66819:14:104
# text = The dwarfish maiden hesitated, standing beside her boat.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dwarfish	dwarfish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hesitate** | participle |  | the dwarfish maiden *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund |  |  |  | maiden's boat |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside boat=Location |

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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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