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title: Gracefully and proudly, like a great swan on some quiet lake, the li… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Gracefully and proudly, like a great swan on some quiet lake, the little vessel glided away from the shore and was soon moving swiftly along the borders of the boundless sea. Who acts: Gracefully. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching, with its dep
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 42

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Gracefully and proudly, like a great swan on some quiet lake, the little vessel glided away from the shore and was soon moving swiftly along the borders of the boundless sea.

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**Who acts:** Gracefully · **What happens:** glide away, move · **To what, where:** little vessel, shore, borders

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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 (Gracefully), 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:pg66819:18:42
# text = Gracefully and proudly, like a great swan on some quiet lake, the little vessel glided away from the shore and was soon moving swiftly along the borders of the boundless sea.
1	Gracefully	Gracefully	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	glided	glide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
26	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	along	along	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	boundless	boundless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glide away** | participle |  | the little vessel *not said here* |  | the shore |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from shore=Trajectory |
| 2 | **move** | past · progressive | Gracefully and a great swan on some quiet lake |  |  | the borders of the boundless sea |  | soon, swiftly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme along border=Trajectory |

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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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