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title: The promised boat was there, moored to the landing by a hempen rope. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The promised boat was there, moored to the landing by a hempen rope. Who acts: promised 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 91

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The promised boat was there, moored to the landing by a hempen rope.

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**Who acts:** promised boat · **What happens:** promise, be, moor

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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 (promised 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:pg66819:12:91
# text = The promised boat was there, moored to the landing by a hempen rope.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	moored	moor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	landing	landing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	hempen	hempen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the promised boat |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **moor** | participle | the promised boat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the landing; by a hempen rope | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to landing=Co-Patient |

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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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