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title: A ship is approaching by sea, and a wonderful sledge is bringing som… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: A ship is approaching by sea, and a wonderful sledge is bringing some hero hither by land.” Who acts: ship, wonderful sledge. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 103

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A ship is approaching by sea, and a wonderful sledge is bringing some hero hither by land.”

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**Who acts:** ship, wonderful sledge · **What happens:** approach, bring · **To what, where:** hero

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ship, wonderful sledge), 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:pg66819:22:103
# text = A ship is approaching by sea, and a wonderful sledge is bringing some hero hither by land.”
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sledge	sledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approach** | present · progressive | a ship |  |  |  |  | by sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | present · progressive | a wonderful sledge | some hero |  |  |  | by land; hither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hero=Theme |

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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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