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title: “See, mother, here comes the other stranger!” said the Maid of Beauty. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “See, mother, here comes the other stranger!” said the Maid of Beauty. Who acts: Maid. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Old Man’s Wooing, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 27

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“See, mother, here comes the other stranger!” said the Maid of Beauty.

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**Who acts:** Maid · **What happens:** see, come, say · **To what, where:** mother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Old Man’s Wooing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maid), 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:pg66819:23:27
# text = “See, mother, here comes the other stranger!” said the Maid of Beauty.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
7	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Maid	Maid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | mother |  | here |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the Maid of Beauty |  |  |  |  | the other stranger *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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