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title: The place which Wainamoinen chose for the building of his boat was o… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The place which Wainamoinen chose for the building of his boat was on the shore of a shady island well concealed behind a lofty headland. Who acts: Wainamoinen, place. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 42

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The place which Wainamoinen chose for the building of his boat was on the shore of a shady island well concealed behind a lofty headland.

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**Who acts:** Wainamoinen, place · **What happens:** choose, be, conceal · **To what, where:** place, shore, shady island, lofty headland

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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 (Wainamoinen, place), 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:pg66819:13:42
# text = The place which Wainamoinen chose for the building of his boat was on the shore of a shady island well concealed behind a lofty headland.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	obj	_	_
4	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	shady	shady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	headland	headland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | Wainamoinen | the place |  |  |  | for the building of place's boat | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent which=Theme for building=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is** | past | the place |  |  | the shore |  | of a shady island | tree rules |
| 3 | **conceal** | participle |  | a shady island *not said here* |  | a lofty headland |  | well *property* | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind headland=Location |

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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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