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title: He looked on this side of the little ship—nothing but water, growing… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He looked on this side of the little ship—nothing but water, growing deeper and deeper and stretching away and away to the blue horizon. Who acts: Wainamoinen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 10

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He looked on this side of the little ship—nothing but water, growing deeper and deeper and stretching away and away to the blue horizon.

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**Who acts:** Wainamoinen · **What happens:** look, grow, stretch away

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wainamoinen), 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:pg66819:19:10
# text = He looked on this side of the little ship—nothing but water, growing deeper and deeper and stretching away and away to the blue horizon.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	appos	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
16	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	horizon	horizon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Wainamoinen |  |  |  |  | on this side of the little ship | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on side=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stretch away** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient 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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