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title: “I care nothing for riches nor for a man of too great wisdom. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “I care nothing for riches nor for a man of too great wisdom. Who acts: 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 41

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“I care nothing for riches nor for a man of too great wisdom.

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**Who acts:** daughter · **What happens:** care · **To what, where:** nothing

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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 (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:pg66819:23:41
# text = “I care nothing for riches nor for a man of too great wisdom.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	care	care	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	10	cc	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	too	too	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **care** *in a quote* | present | the daughter *= daughter* | nothing |  |  |  | for riches nor a man of great wisdom | 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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