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title: “Perhaps he comes to claim his wages that are due him,” modestly ans… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Perhaps he comes to claim his wages that are due him,” modestly answered the dutiful daughter. Who acts: stranger, that, dutiful daughter. 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 32

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“Perhaps he comes to claim his wages that are due him,” modestly answered the dutiful daughter.

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**Who acts:** stranger, that, dutiful daughter · **What happens:** come, claim, be, answer · **To what, where:** wages · **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 (stranger, that, dutiful daughter), 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:pg66819:23:32
# text = “Perhaps he comes to claim his wages that are due him,” modestly answered the dutiful daughter.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	claim	claim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wages	wage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	8	amod	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
15	modestly	modestly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	dutiful	dutiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present | stranger |  |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **claim** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | stranger *not said here* | stranger's wages |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wage=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  | stranger *nsubj*; due *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the dutiful daughter |  |  |  |  | modestly *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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