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title: She would have swooned had not pride prevented. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: She would have swooned had not pride prevented. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 10

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She would have swooned had not pride prevented.

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**What happens:** swoon, have, prevent · **To what, where:** life, pride

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66819:24:10
# text = She would have swooned had not pride prevented.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	swooned	swoon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	prevented	prevent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swoon** | would · perfect · passive |  | life |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | participle |  | pride |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pride=Patient |
| 3 | **prevent** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |

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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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