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title: If the maiden shall prefer you, I will not be envious; for your good… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: If the maiden shall prefer you, I will not be envious; for your good luck will be my good fortune, and my success will be your triumph.” Who acts: maiden, I, good luck, success. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Friendly Rivals, with its dependency tree 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 43

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If the maiden shall prefer you, I will not be envious; for your good luck will be my good fortune, and my success will be your triumph.”

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**Who acts:** maiden, I, good luck, success · **What happens:** prefer, not be, be · **To what, where:** you, triumph

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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 (maiden, I, good luck, success), 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:pg66819:21:43
# text = If the maiden shall prefer you, I will not be envious; for your good luck will be my good fortune, and my success will be your triumph.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	prefer	prefer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	envious	envious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	triumph	triumph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prefer** *a condition, not said to happen* | shall | the maiden | you |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **is** | future | I |  |  |  |  | envious *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | future | your good luck |  |  |  |  | for my good fortune; my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | future | my success | your triumph |  |  |  | your *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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