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title: The hull was bare and unadorned, the copper prow was rough and unsha… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The hull was bare and unadorned, the copper prow was rough and unshapely, the deck was uneven and uninviting. Who acts: hull, copper prow, deck. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 21

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The hull was bare and unadorned, the copper prow was rough and unshapely, the deck was uneven and uninviting.

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**Who acts:** hull, copper prow, deck · **What happens:** be, uninvit

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hull, copper prow, deck), 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:pg66819:18:21
# text = The hull was bare and unadorned, the copper prow was rough and unshapely, the deck was uneven and uninviting.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hull	hull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	unadorned	unadorned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	prow	prow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	unshapely	unshapely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	uneven	uneven	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	uninviting	uninvit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the hull |  |  |  |  | bare *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the hull *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the copper prow |  |  |  |  | rough *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the copper prow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | the deck |  |  |  |  | uneven *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **uninvit** | gerund | the deck *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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