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title: The Maid of Beauty is waiting for you, Ilmarinen, but before you tak… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The Maid of Beauty is waiting for you, Ilmarinen, but before you take her your courage must be tested, you must perform the task that I require of you.” Who acts: Maid, you, I. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents, with its dependency tree
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 21

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The Maid of Beauty is waiting for you, Ilmarinen, but before you take her your courage must be tested, you must perform the task that I require of you.”

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**Who acts:** Maid, you, I · **What happens:** wait, take, test, perform, require · **To what, where:** Ilmarinen, Maid, courage, task

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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 (Maid, you, I), 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:pg66819:24:21
# text = The Maid of Beauty is waiting for you, Ilmarinen, but before you take her your courage must be tested, you must perform the task that I require of you.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Maid	Maid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
13	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	tested	test	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	perform	perform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obj	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	require	require	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | present · progressive | the Maid of Beauty | Ilmarinen |  |  |  | for you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | present | you |  | Maid |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
| 3 | **test** | must · passive |  | your courage |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **perform** | must | you | the task |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Theme |
| 5 | **require** | present | I | the task |  |  |  | of you | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Precondition |

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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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