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title: Let us agree each to woo this maiden honorably as a man and a hero w… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Let us agree each to woo this maiden honorably as a man and a hero would woo her. Who acts: you, us, hero. 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 38

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Let us agree each to woo this maiden honorably as a man and a hero would woo her.

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**Who acts:** you, us, hero · **What happens:** let, agree, woo · **To what, where:** us, each, this, Maid

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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, us, hero), 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:pg66819:21:38
# text = Let us agree each to woo this maiden honorably as a man and a hero would woo her.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	agree	agree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	woo	woo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
8	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	honorably	honorably	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	woo	woo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | infinitive | us *not said here* | each |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent each=Topic |
| 3 | **woo** | to-infinitive | us *not said here* | this |  |  |  | as a man; honorably *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient |
| 4 | **woo** | would | a hero | Maid |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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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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