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title: At length every spell was recited, every rune was sung, every magic… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: At length every spell was recited, every rune was sung, every magic word was spoken, and the wonderful vessel was completed—all except the nailing down of three long boards at the bottom of the hull. Who acts: length. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Un
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 117

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At length every spell was recited, every rune was sung, every magic word was spoken, and the wonderful vessel was completed—all except the nailing down of three long boards at the bottom of the hull.

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**Who acts:** length · **What happens:** recite, sing, speak, complete · **To what, where:** spell, rune, length, magic word, wonderful vessel, bottom · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (length), 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:pg66819:13:117
# text = At length every spell was recited, every rune was sung, every magic word was spoken, and the wonderful vessel was completed—all except the nailing down of three long boards at the bottom of the hull.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	recited	recite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	rune	rune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
14	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	completed	complete	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	parataxis	_	_
27	except	except	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	nailing	nailing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	down	down	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
33	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	boards	board	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	hull	hull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recite** | past · passive | length *not said here* | every spell |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · passive |  | every rune |  | length |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | every magic word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **complete** | past · passive |  | the wonderful vessel |  | the bottom of the hull |  | down three long boards | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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