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title: Beside the hearth sat Wainamoinen, the prince of minstrels, sad of f… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Beside the hearth sat Wainamoinen, the prince of minstrels, sad of face, but resigned and wisely contented. 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.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 7

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Beside the hearth sat Wainamoinen, the prince of minstrels, sad of face, but resigned and wisely contented.

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**What happens:** sit, resign, content · **To what, where:** Wainamoinen, hearth

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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: 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:pg66819:26:7
# text = Beside the hearth sat Wainamoinen, the prince of minstrels, sad of face, but resigned and wisely contented.
1	Beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hearth	hearth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	minstrels	minstrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	resigned	resign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	wisely	wisely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	contented	content	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  | Wainamoinen |  | the hearth |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent wainamoinen=Theme beside hearth=Location |
| 2 | **resign** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **content** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | wisely *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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