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title: Ride on and woo the Maid of Beauty, and I will return alone to our d… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Ride on and woo the Maid of Beauty, and I will return alone to our dear home in the Land of Heroes.” Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Friendly Rivals, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 34

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Ride on and woo the Maid of Beauty, and I will return alone to our dear home in the Land of Heroes.”

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** ride on, woo, return · **To what, where:** Maid, Land

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Friendly Rivals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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:pg66819:21:34
# text = Ride on and woo the Maid of Beauty, and I will return alone to our dear home in the Land of Heroes.”
1	Ride	ride	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	woo	woo	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Maid	Maid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
14	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride on** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **woo** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the Maid of Beauty |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Patient |
| 3 | **return** | future | I |  |  | the Land of Heroes |  | to our dear home *result*; alone *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result |

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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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