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title: Then with skill and great patience Sampsa hewed and cleaved and shap… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then with skill and great patience Sampsa hewed and cleaved and shaped it into beams and boards, more in number than he could reckon. Who acts: Sampsa. 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 ever
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 105

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Then with skill and great patience Sampsa hewed and cleaved and shaped it into beams and boards, more in number than he could reckon.

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**Who acts:** Sampsa · **What happens:** hew, cleave, shape, reckon · **To what, where:** patience, beams

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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: who acts (Sampsa), 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:pg66819:13:105
# text = Then with skill and great patience Sampsa hewed and cleaved and shaped it into beams and boards, more in number than he could reckon.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	Sampsa	Sampsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	hewed	hew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	cleaved	cleave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	boards	board	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hew** | past |  |  |  |  | then | with skill and great patience | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with skill=Instrument |
| 2 | **cleave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **shape** | participle |  | patience |  | beams and boards |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into beam=Product |
| 4 | **reckon** | could | Sampsa |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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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