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title: Swiftly the gray racer flew along the shore; fleetly the boat of mag… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Swiftly the gray racer flew along the shore; fleetly the boat of magic skimmed over the wrinkled waters. Who acts: gray racer. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Friendly Rivals, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 47

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Swiftly the gray racer flew along the shore; fleetly the boat of magic skimmed over the wrinkled waters.

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**Who acts:** gray racer · **What happens:** fly, skim, wrinkle · **To what, where:** shore, boat, wrinkled waters

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Friendly Rivals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gray racer), 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:pg66819:21:47
# text = Swiftly the gray racer flew along the shore; fleetly the boat of magic skimmed over the wrinkled waters.
1	Swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	racer	racer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	along	along	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	fleetly	fleetly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	skimmed	skim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | the gray racer |  |  | the shore |  | the boat of magic *conj*; swiftly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along shore=Location |
| 2 | **skim** | participle |  | the boat of magic *not said here* |  | the wrinkled waters |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wrinkle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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