---
title: She was not with those who stood at the door to welcome the conqueri… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: She was not with those who stood at the door to welcome the conquering hero. Who acts: Maid. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/26/52/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old No…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/) / [The Bridegroom’s Triumph](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/26/) / 52

# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 52

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She was not with those who stood at the door to welcome the conquering hero.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Maid · **What happens:** not be, stand, welcome, conquer · **To what, where:** door, conquering hero

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:26:52
# text = She was not with those who stood at the door to welcome the conquering hero.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	welcome	welcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	conquering	conquer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | Maid |  |  |  |  | with those | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  |  |  | the door |  | who *nsubj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location |
| 3 | **welcome** | to-infinitive |  | the conquering hero |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Theme |
| 4 | **conquer** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/26/51/)
- next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/26/53/)
- ↑ back to [The Bridegroom’s Triumph](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/26/)