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title: I hope to fill my boat with the fat fellows, to carry a thousand hom… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: I hope to fill my boat with the fat fellows, to carry a thousand home for winter eating.” Who acts: I. 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 69

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I hope to fill my boat with the fat fellows, to carry a thousand home for winter eating.”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** hope, fill, carry, eat · **To what, where:** boat, thousand home

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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 (I), 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:pg66819:19:69
# text = I hope to fill my boat with the fat fellows, to carry a thousand home for winter eating.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hope** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **fill** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my boat |  |  |  | with the fat fellows | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent boat=Patient with fellow=Instrument |
| 3 | **carry** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | thousand home |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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