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title: But think you that one in my position would stoop to such folly?” — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: But think you that one in my position would stoop to such folly?” Who acts: one. 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 147

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But think you that one in my position would stoop to such folly?”

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** think, stoop · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (one), 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:pg66819:31:147
# text = But think you that one in my position would stoop to such folly?”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	stoop	stoop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **stoop** | would | one in my position |  |  |  |  | to such folly | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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