---
title: He planed them, he sawed them, he fashioned them with infinite care… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He planed them, he sawed them, he fashioned them with infinite care until each was of the proper length and thickness. Who acts: Sampsa, each. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/13/106/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old No…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/) / [The Unfinished Boat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/13/) / 106

# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 106

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He planed them, he sawed them, he fashioned them with infinite care until each was of the proper length and thickness.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Sampsa, each · **What happens:** plane, saw, be · **To what, where:** boards

<!-- .vabout -->
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, each), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:13:106
# text = He planed them, he sawed them, he fashioned them with infinite care until each was of the proper length and thickness.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	planed	plane	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sawed	saw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	infinite	infinite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	advcl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	thickness	thickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plane** | past | Sampsa | boards *= board* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **saw** | past | Sampsa | boards *= board* |  |  |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | each |  |  |  |  | of the proper length and thickness; thickness *conj* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/13/105/)
- next →: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/13/107/)
- ↑ back to [The Unfinished Boat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/13/)