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title: “Wainamoinen, prince of minstrels, wisest of men, best of friends—we… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Wainamoinen, prince of minstrels, wisest of men, best of friends—welcome, welcome! A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 25

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“Wainamoinen, prince of minstrels, wisest of men, best of friends—welcome, welcome!

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66819:7:25
# text = “Wainamoinen, prince of minstrels, wisest of men, best of friends—welcome, welcome!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	minstrels	minstrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	wisest	wise	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	welcome	welcome	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	welcome	welcome	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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