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title: “I care naught for old men,” replied the Maid of Beauty; “riches tem… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “I care naught for old men,” replied the Maid of Beauty; “riches tempt me not; the magic vessel may never reach its haven. Who acts: Maid, riches, magic vessel. 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 pragmati
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 73

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“I care naught for old men,” replied the Maid of Beauty; “riches tempt me not; the magic vessel may never reach its haven.

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**Who acts:** Maid, riches, magic vessel · **What happens:** care, reply, not tempt, not reach · **To what, where:** naught, Minstrel, haven · **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, riches, magic vessel), 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:pg66819:23:73
# text = “I care naught for old men,” replied the Maid of Beauty; “riches tempt me not; the magic vessel may never reach its haven.
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	naught	naught	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
10	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Maid	Maid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	tempt	tempt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	haven	haven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	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 Maid of Beauty *= maid* | naught |  |  |  | for old men | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Maid of Beauty |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **tempt** *in a quote* | present | riches |  | the Minstrel *= minstrel* |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **reach** *in a quote* | may | the magic vessel | vessel's haven |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent haven=Theme |

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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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