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title: On the seventh day a white swan flew down as though inspecting his b… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: On the seventh day a white swan flew down as though inspecting his boat, a gray goose made its nest under the well-hung rudder, and a flock of swallows sat twittering upon the gunwales. Who acts: white swan, gray goose, flock. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwi
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 127

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On the seventh day a white swan flew down as though inspecting his boat, a gray goose made its nest under the well-hung rudder, and a flock of swallows sat twittering upon the gunwales.

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**Who acts:** white swan, gray goose, flock · **What happens:** fly down, inspect, make, hang, sit, twitter · **To what, where:** boat, nest, hung rudder

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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 (white swan, gray goose, flock), 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:pg66819:13:127
# text = On the seventh day a white swan flew down as though inspecting his boat, a gray goose made its nest under the well-hung rudder, and a flock of swallows sat twittering upon the gunwales.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	inspecting	inspect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	under	under	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	rudder	rudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	swallows	swallow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
35	twittering	twitter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
36	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	gunwales	gunwale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly down** | past | a white swan |  |  |  | day | down *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **inspect** | gerund | a white swan *not said here* | plan's boat |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past | a gray goose | swan's nest |  | the hung rudder |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Product |
| 4 | **hang** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sit** | past | a flock of swallows |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **twitter** | gerund | a flock of swallows *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the gunwales | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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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