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title: But Wainamoinen, steadfast even in misfortune, spoke up cheeringly a… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: But Wainamoinen, steadfast even in misfortune, spoke up cheeringly and with encouraging words. Who acts: Wainamoinen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Pursuit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 67

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But Wainamoinen, steadfast even in misfortune, spoke up cheeringly and with encouraging words.

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**Who acts:** Wainamoinen · **What happens:** speak up, encourage

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Pursuit. 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:pg66819:37:67
# text = But Wainamoinen, steadfast even in misfortune, spoke up cheeringly and with encouraging words.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	steadfast	steadfast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	cheeringly	cheeringly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	encouraging	encourage	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak up** *speech: other* | past | Wainamoinen |  |  |  |  | encouraging words *conj*; cheeringly *property* | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **encourage** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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