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title: It was his intention, when this boat was finished, to make a secret… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: It was his intention, when this boat was finished, to make a secret voyage to the Frozen Land and boldly make known his suit to the Maid of Beauty. Who acts: sailing. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 34

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It was his intention, when this boat was finished, to make a secret voyage to the Frozen Land and boldly make known his suit to the Maid of Beauty.

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**Who acts:** sailing · **What happens:** be, finish, make, know · **To what, where:** intention, boat, secret voyage, suit

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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 (sailing), 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:pg66819:13:34
# text = It was his intention, when this boat was finished, to make a secret voyage to the Frozen Land and boldly make known his suit to the Maid of Beauty.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	intention	intention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Frozen	Frozen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	boldly	boldly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
23	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Maid	Maid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | sailing | maiden's intention |  |  |  | maiden *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **finish** | past · passive |  | this boat |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a secret voyage |  |  |  | to the Frozen Land | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset voyage=Product |
| 4 | **make** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | boldly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | participle |  | maiden's suit |  |  |  | to the Maid of Beauty | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer suit=Stimulus |

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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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