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title: Never will I wed without my mother’s consent, for just punishment su… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Never will I wed without my mother’s consent, for just punishment surely waits for disobedient daughters. Who acts: I, punishment, mother. 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 57

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Never will I wed without my mother’s consent, for just punishment surely waits for disobedient daughters.

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**Who acts:** I, punishment, mother · **What happens:** not wed, wait, consent

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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 (I, punishment, mother), 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:pg66819:24:57
# text = Never will I wed without my mother’s consent, for just punishment surely waits for disobedient daughters.
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wed	wed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	consent	consent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	waits	wait	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	disobedient	disobedient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wed** | future | I |  |  |  |  | without my mother's consent | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **wait** | present | punishment |  |  |  |  | for disobedient daughters; surely *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **consent** |  | my mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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