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title: Winter days are bitter cold; Beware, beware of the suitor bold— Bewa… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Winter days are bitter cold; Beware, beware of the suitor bold— Beware the more if he is old.” Who acts: Winter days, Beauty. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of Beauty, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 42

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Winter days are bitter cold; Beware, beware of the suitor bold— Beware the more if he is old.”

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**Who acts:** Winter days, Beauty · **What happens:** be, beware

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of Beauty. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Winter days, Beauty), 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:pg66819:3:42
# text = Winter days are bitter cold; Beware, beware of the suitor bold— Beware the more if he is old.”
1	Winter	Winter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Beware	beware	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	beware	beware	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	suitor	suitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	bold	bold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Beware	beware	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Winter days |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **beware** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **beware** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of the suitor bold | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **beware** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Beauty |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |

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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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