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title: He lifted the Golden Maiden and placed her in the cushioned seat whe… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He lifted the Golden Maiden and placed her in the cushioned seat wherein his lost wife had often reposed. Who acts: Smith, lost wife. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 112

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He lifted the Golden Maiden and placed her in the cushioned seat wherein his lost wife had often reposed.

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**Who acts:** Smith, lost wife · **What happens:** lift, place, cushion, lose, repose · **To what, where:** Golden Maiden, maid, cushioned seat

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Smith, lost wife), 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:pg66819:31:112
# text = He lifted the Golden Maiden and placed her in the cushioned seat wherein his lost wife had often reposed.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	cushioned	cushion	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	often	often	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	reposed	repose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | past | Smith | the Golden Maiden |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme |
| 2 | **place** | past | Smith *not said here* | maid |  | the cushioned seat |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in seat=Destination |
| 3 | **cushion** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **repose** | past · perfect | Smith's lost wife |  |  |  |  | often, wherein *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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