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title: Only three things were lacking to make it ready for the launching—th… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Only three things were lacking to make it ready for the launching—three magic strokes to drive the three bolts that would fasten the three planks which still hung loose at the bottom of the hull. Who acts: three things, three bolts. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 6

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Only three things were lacking to make it ready for the launching—three magic strokes to drive the three bolts that would fasten the three planks which still hung loose at the bottom of the hull.

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**Who acts:** three things, three bolts · **What happens:** lack, make, drive, fasten, hang · **To what, where:** boat, three bolts, three planks, bottom

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three things, three bolts), 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:pg66819:17:6
# text = Only three things were lacking to make it ready for the launching—three magic strokes to drive the three bolts that would fasten the three planks which still hung loose at the bottom of the hull.
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	lacking	lack	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	launching	launching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	strokes	stroke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	appos	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	bolts	bolt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	fasten	fasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	planks	plank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obj	_	_
29	still	still	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	hull	hull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lack** | past · progressive | three things |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | three things *not said here* | boat |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 3 | **drive** | to-infinitive | three things *not said here* | the three bolts |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme bolt=Trajectory |
| 4 | **fasten** | would | the three bolts | the three planks |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plank=Patient |
| 5 | **hang** | past |  | the three planks |  | the bottom of the hull | still | loose *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme at bottom=Destination |

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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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