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title: But Wainamoinen, old and fearless, stood in his place unflinching an… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: But Wainamoinen, old and fearless, stood in his place unflinching and firm as a rock in the midst of a storm. Who acts: Wainamoinen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 62

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But Wainamoinen, old and fearless, stood in his place unflinching and firm as a rock in the midst of a storm.

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**Who acts:** Wainamoinen · **What happens:** stand, unflinch · **To what, where:** place, midst

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wainamoinen), 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:pg66819:35:62
# text = But Wainamoinen, old and fearless, stood in his place unflinching and firm as a rock in the midst of a storm.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fearless	fearless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	unflinching	unflinch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	firm	firm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Wainamoinen |  |  | Wainamoinen's place |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |
| 2 | **unflinch** | gerund | Wainamoinen *not said here* |  |  | the midst of a storm |  |  | 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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