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title: “The Minstrel is building a magic vessel to cruise on northern seas,… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “The Minstrel is building a magic vessel to cruise on northern seas, and he has sent me to find a tree from which to make the beams and keel. Who acts: Minstrel, Sampsa, tree. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat, with its dependency tree an
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 62

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“The Minstrel is building a magic vessel to cruise on northern seas, and he has sent me to find a tree from which to make the beams and keel.

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**Who acts:** Minstrel, Sampsa, tree · **What happens:** build, cruise, send, find, make, keel · **To what, where:** magic vessel, northern seas, Sampsa, tree, beams

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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 (Minstrel, Sampsa, tree), 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:pg66819:13:62
# text = “The Minstrel is building a magic vessel to cruise on northern seas, and he has sent me to find a tree from which to make the beams and keel.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	building	build	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	cruise	cruise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	keel	keel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the Minstrel | a magic vessel |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Product |
| 2 | **cruise** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Minstrel *not said here* | a magic vessel *not said here* |  | northern seas |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **send** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Sampsa | Sampsa |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **find** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Sampsa *not said here* | a tree |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic |
| 5 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a tree | the beams |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset beam=Product |
| 6 | **keel** *in a quote* | infinitive | a tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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