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title: Then with steady arms and mighty strokes she rowed homeward, nor did… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then with steady arms and mighty strokes she rowed homeward, nor did she pause until the boat’s keel grated on the beach before her door. Who acts: face. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 54

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Then with steady arms and mighty strokes she rowed homeward, nor did she pause until the boat’s keel grated on the beach before her door.

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**Who acts:** face · **What happens:** row, pause, grate · **To what, where:** homeward, keel

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face), 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:pg66819:2:54
# text = Then with steady arms and mighty strokes she rowed homeward, nor did she pause until the boat’s keel grated on the beach before her door.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	strokes	stroke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	rowed	row	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	15	cc	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	pause	pause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
16	until	until	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	keel	keel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	grated	grate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	before	before	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **row** | past | face | homeward |  |  | then | with steady arms and mighty strokes | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homeward=Theme |
| 2 | **pause** | past · do-support | face |  |  |  | until the boat's keel |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grate** | participle |  | the boat's keel *not said here* |  |  | before face's door | on the beach | vn appeal-31.4-1 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus on beach=Experiencer |

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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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