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title: But never should suitor win his bride too easily, lest doing so he p… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: But never should suitor win his bride too easily, lest doing so he prize her too lightly. Who acts: desire. 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 20

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But never should suitor win his bride too easily, lest doing so he prize her too lightly.

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**Who acts:** desire · **What happens:** not win, do, prize · **To what, where:** bride

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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: who acts (desire), 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:pg66819:24:20
# text = But never should suitor win his bride too easily, lest doing so he prize her too lightly.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	suitor	suitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	win	win	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	prize	prize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **win** | should |  | desire's bride |  |  |  | suitor *compound*; easily *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **prize** | infinitive | desire | bride |  |  |  | lightly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |

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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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