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title: Now, when there can be no more joy for me, I bring you this Golden M… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, when there can be no more joy for me, I bring you this Golden Maiden to be your solace and delight. Who acts: you, I. 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 141

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Now, when there can be no more joy for me, I bring you this Golden Maiden to be your solace and delight.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** not be, bring, be · **To what, where:** more joy, you, solace

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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 (you, I), 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:pg66819:31:141
# text = Now, when there can be no more joy for me, I bring you this Golden Maiden to be your solace and delight.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
7	no	no	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
17	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	solace	solace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | imperative | you *not said here* | more joy |  |  | now | for me | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | present | I |  | you |  |  | Golden Maiden  this *parataxis* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | your solace and delight |  |  |  | your *nmod:poss*; delight *conj* | 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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