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title: Finally, the broad, well-shaped hull and the gunwales, fore and aft,… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Finally, the broad, well-shaped hull and the gunwales, fore and aft, were painted in bright colors—blue and yellow and scarlet—and the slender mast was coated with snow-white enamel. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching, with its dependency tree a
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 30

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Finally, the broad, well-shaped hull and the gunwales, fore and aft, were painted in bright colors—blue and yellow and scarlet—and the slender mast was coated with snow-white enamel.

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**What happens:** shape, paint, coat · **To what, where:** bright colors, slender mast

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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:pg66819:18:30
# text = Finally, the broad, well-shaped hull and the gunwales, fore and aft, were painted in bright colors—blue and yellow and scarlet—and the slender mast was coated with snow-white enamel.
1	Finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	hull	hull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	gunwales	gunwale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	fore	fore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	aft	aft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	mast	mast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	coated	coat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	enamel	enamel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shape** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **paint** | past · passive |  |  |  | bright colors |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: in color=Destination |
| 3 | **coat** | past · passive |  | the slender mast |  |  |  | with snow white enamel | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with enamel=Theme |

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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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