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title: Luckless was the hour when I embarked on a ship to go fishing; still… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Luckless was the hour when I embarked on a ship to go fishing; still more luckless was it when a storm overturned the vessel. Who acts: Luckless, I, storm. 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 o
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 61

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Luckless was the hour when I embarked on a ship to go fishing; still more luckless was it when a storm overturned the vessel.

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**Who acts:** Luckless, I, storm · **What happens:** be, embark, go, overturn · **To what, where:** hour, ship, fishing, vessel

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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 (Luckless, I, storm), 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:pg66819:2:61
# text = Luckless was the hour when I embarked on a ship to go fishing; still more luckless was it when a storm overturned the vessel.
1	Luckless	Luckless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	embarked	embark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
13	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	luckless	luckless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	overturned	overturn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Luckless | the hour |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **embark** | past | I |  |  | a ship |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | fishing |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fishing=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | fishing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **overturn** | past | a storm | the vessel |  |  |  |  | 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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