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title: The white waves danced and trembled in the wake of Wainamoinen’s gol… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The white waves danced and trembled in the wake of Wainamoinen’s gold-beaked vessel. 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 49

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The white waves danced and trembled in the wake of Wainamoinen’s gold-beaked vessel.

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**What happens:** dance, tremble, beak · **To what, where:** white waves, wake

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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: 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:pg66819:21:49
# text = The white waves danced and trembled in the wake of Wainamoinen’s gold-beaked vessel.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	danced	dance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wake	wake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
11	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	beaked	beak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | participle · passive |  | the white waves |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **tremble** | participle |  |  |  | the wake of Wainamoinen's beaked vessel |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wake=Location |
| 3 | **beak** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | gold *compound* | 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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