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title: First, the prow was overlaid with sunbright gold and its forward par… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: First, the prow was overlaid with sunbright gold and its forward part was beautifully carved and shaped into the form of a swan with outspread wings. 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 28

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First, the prow was overlaid with sunbright gold and its forward part was beautifully carved and shaped into the form of a swan with outspread wings.

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**What happens:** overlay, carve, shape, form · **To what, where:** prow, forward part, form, swan

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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: 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:pg66819:18:28
# text = First, the prow was overlaid with sunbright gold and its forward part was beautifully carved and shaped into the form of a swan with outspread wings.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	prow	prow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	overlaid	overlay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	sunbright	sunbright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	forward	forward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	outspread	outspread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overlay** | past · passive |  | the prow |  |  |  | with sunbright gold; first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **carve** | past · passive |  | prow's forward part |  |  |  | beautifully *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **shape** | participle |  |  |  | the form of a swan with outspread wings |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into form=Product |
| 4 | **form** |  |  | a swan with outspread wings |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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