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title: The wary Wainamoinen was too proud to be outwitted by a simple maide… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The wary Wainamoinen was too proud to be outwitted by a simple maiden, and so he tried another subterfuge. Who acts: wary Wainamoinen, simple maiden, Wainamoinen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 91

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The wary Wainamoinen was too proud to be outwitted by a simple maiden, and so he tried another subterfuge.

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**Who acts:** wary Wainamoinen, simple maiden, Wainamoinen · **What happens:** be, outwit, try · **To what, where:** subterfuge

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wary Wainamoinen, simple maiden, Wainamoinen), 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:pg66819:19:91
# text = The wary Wainamoinen was too proud to be outwitted by a simple maiden, and so he tried another subterfuge.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wary	wary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	outwitted	outwit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
19	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	subterfuge	subterfuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the wary Wainamoinen |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **outwit** | to-infinitive · passive | a simple maiden |  |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **try** | past | Wainamoinen | another subterfuge |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subterfuge=Eventuality |

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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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