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title: I long—oh, I long! to float on the blue-backed sea, to carry treasur… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: I long—oh, I long! to float on the blue-backed sea, to carry treasures from land to land, to fight with the storm and conquer the waves.” A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 103

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I long—oh, I long! to float on the blue-backed sea, to carry treasures from land to land, to fight with the storm and conquer the waves.”

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**What happens:** float, back, carry, fight, conquer · **To what, where:** backed sea, treasures, land, waves

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat. 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:pg66819:13:103
# text = I long—oh, I long! to float on the blue-backed sea, to carry treasures from land to land, to fight with the storm and conquer the waves.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	float	float	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	backed	back	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
20	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	conquer	conquer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the backed sea |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sea=Trajectory |
| 2 | **back** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** | to-infinitive |  | treasures |  | land |  | to land | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme from land=Initial\_Location to land=Destination |
| 4 | **fight** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with the storm | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with storm=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **conquer** | infinitive |  | the waves |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=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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