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title: I am sailing thitherward, hoping to do my part in the struggle and t… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: I am sailing thitherward, hoping to do my part in the struggle and to lend my aid to those who deserve it most. 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 80

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I am sailing thitherward, hoping to do my part in the struggle and to lend my aid to those who deserve it most.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** sail, hope, do, lend, deserve · **To what, where:** thitherward, part, struggle, aid, those

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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:pg66819:19:80
# text = I am sailing thitherward, hoping to do my part in the struggle and to lend my aid to those who deserve it most.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	thitherward	thitherward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	struggle	struggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	lend	lend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	obl	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	deserve	deserve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | present · progressive | I | thitherward |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thitherward=Theme |
| 2 | **hope** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my part |  | the struggle |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality |
| 4 | **lend** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my aid | those |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent aid=Theme to that=Recipient |
| 5 | **deserve** | present |  | aid |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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