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title: Like a waterfowl in some sheltered cove, the boat glided with incred… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Like a waterfowl in some sheltered cove, the boat glided with incredible smoothness over the chilly waters. Who acts: boat. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 109

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Like a waterfowl in some sheltered cove, the boat glided with incredible smoothness over the chilly waters.

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**Who acts:** boat · **What happens:** shelter, glide · **To what, where:** chilly waters

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boat), 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:pg66819:12:109
# text = Like a waterfowl in some sheltered cove, the boat glided with incredible smoothness over the chilly waters.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	waterfowl	waterfowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	sheltered	shelter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	cove	cove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	glided	glide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	incredible	incredible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	smoothness	smoothness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	chilly	chilly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shelter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **glide** | past | the boat |  |  | the chilly waters |  | like a waterfowl in some sheltered cove; with incredible smoothness | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over water=Trajectory |

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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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