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title: “O restless Waves, be kind, I pray To this small craft while on its… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “O restless Waves, be kind, I pray To this small craft while on its way; Drive it along with gentle force, Let nothing swerve it from its course.” Who acts: restless Waves, heart, nothing. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching, with its dependency 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 48

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“O restless Waves, be kind, I pray To this small craft while on its way; Drive it along with gentle force, Let nothing swerve it from its course.”

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**Who acts:** restless Waves, heart, nothing · **What happens:** be, pray, drive, let, swerve · **To what, where:** way, gentle force, nothing, course

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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 (restless Waves, heart, nothing), 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:pg66819:18:48
# text = “O restless Waves, be kind, I pray To this small craft while on its way; Drive it along with gentle force, Let nothing swerve it from its course.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
3	restless	restless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	To	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	craft	craft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	along	along	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	27	obj	_	_
29	swerve	swerve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | restless Waves |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pray** *in a quote* | present | heart |  |  |  |  | to this small craft; craft's way *advcl* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **drive** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | way |  | gentle force |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme along force=Trajectory |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **swerve** *in a quote* | infinitive | nothing *not said here* | way |  | way's course |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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