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title: Their boat was a plain one—no golden prow nor silver-plated deck nor… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Their boat was a plain one—no golden prow nor silver-plated deck nor rainbow-colored sail. Who acts: boat, golden prow. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 56

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Their boat was a plain one—no golden prow nor silver-plated deck nor rainbow-colored sail.

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**Who acts:** boat, golden prow · **What happens:** be, plate, color · **To what, where:** plain one, sail

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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 (boat, golden prow), 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:pg66819:19:56
# text = Their boat was a plain one—no golden prow nor silver-plated deck nor rainbow-colored sail.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
9	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	prow	prow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	12	cc	_	_
12	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	plated	plate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	17	cc	_	_
17	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
20	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Father's boat | a plain one |  |  |  | no golden prow nor silver and plated deck nor rainbow *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **plate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **color** | participle | no golden prow nor silver and plated deck nor rainbow *not said here* | sail |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=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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