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title: Then he thought of his neglected boat, lying high upon the shore and… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he thought of his neglected boat, lying high upon the shore and waiting for the finishing touches which he was now prepared to give. Who acts: Minstrel, finishing. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 3

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Then he thought of his neglected boat, lying high upon the shore and waiting for the finishing touches which he was now prepared to give.

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**Who acts:** Minstrel, finishing · **What happens:** think, neglect, lie, wait, touch, prepare · **To what, where:** shore

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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 (Minstrel, finishing), 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:pg66819:18:3
# text = Then he thought of his neglected boat, lying high upon the shore and waiting for the finishing touches which he was now prepared to give.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	neglected	neglect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
10	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	finishing	finishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	touches	touch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
24	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	ccomp	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Minstrel |  |  |  | then | of Minstrel's neglected boat | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **neglect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | Minstrel *not said here* |  |  | the shore |  | high *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon shore=Location |
| 4 | **wait** | gerund | Minstrel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **touch** | present | the finishing |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **prepare** | past · passive |  |  |  |  | now | which *nsubj:pass*; Minstrel *nsubj* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 7 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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