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title: Its hull was painted blue and yellow, its ribs were golden, its prow… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Its hull was painted blue and yellow, its ribs were golden, its prow was of copper, and its sails were of white linen whereon were depicted most wonderful figures of dragons and savage beasts; and on its deck and within its hold were all manner of weapons of war—axes and spears, bows and arrows, sha
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 96

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Its hull was painted blue and yellow, its ribs were golden, its prow was of copper, and its sails were of white linen whereon were depicted most wonderful figures of dragons and savage beasts; and on its deck and within its hold were all manner of weapons of war—axes and spears, bows and arrows, sharp daggers and gleaming swords.

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**Who acts:** ribs, prow, sails, deck, sea · **What happens:** paint, be, depict, gleam, figure, hold · **To what, where:** hull, wonderful figures, manner, swords, dragons

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ribs, prow, sails, deck), 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:pg66819:10:96
# text = Its hull was painted blue and yellow, its ribs were golden, its prow was of copper, and its sails were of white linen whereon were depicted most wonderful figures of dragons and savage beasts; and on its deck and within its hold were all manner of weapons of war—axes and spears, bows and arrows, sharp daggers and gleaming swords.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hull	hull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	ribs	rib	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	prow	prow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
27	whereon	whereon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	depicted	depict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
30	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	31	advmod	_	_
31	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	49	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	within	within	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
47	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
48	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	49	det	_	_
49	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	axes	ax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
59	bows	bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	conj	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
63	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	daggers	dagger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	conj	_	_
65	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
66	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
67	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	66	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | past · passive |  | sea's hull |  |  |  | axes and spears and bows and arrows and sharp daggers *obl*; blue *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | sea's ribs |  |  |  |  | golden *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | sea's prow |  |  |  |  | of copper | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | sea's sails |  |  |  |  | of white linen | tree rules |
| 5 | **depict** | past · passive | sea's sails *not said here* | wonderful figures of dragons and savage beasts |  |  |  | whereon *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: figure=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | past | sea's deck and sea's hold | all manner |  |  |  | of weapons of war | tree rules |
| 7 | **gleam** | gerund |  | swords |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 8 | **figure** |  |  | dragons and savage beasts |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **hold** |  | sea |  |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: poss=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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