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title: Perhaps you might endow this Golden Maiden with sense, with warm blo… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Perhaps you might endow this Golden Maiden with sense, with warm blood, with a noble soul.” Who acts: you. 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 149

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Perhaps you might endow this Golden Maiden with sense, with warm blood, with a noble soul.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** endow · **To what, where:** Golden Maiden

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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), 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:pg66819:31:149
# text = Perhaps you might endow this Golden Maiden with sense, with warm blood, with a noble soul.”
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	endow	endow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **endow** | might | you |  | Golden Maiden  this |  |  | with sense; warm blood *advcl*; a noble soul *parataxis*; perhaps *property* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent maiden=Destination with sense=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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