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title: The speck upon the waters was a fairy ship, its prow all golden, its… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The speck upon the waters was a fairy ship, its prow all golden, its hull bright scarlet, its sails blue and red. Who acts: speck. 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 92

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The speck upon the waters was a fairy ship, its prow all golden, its hull bright scarlet, its sails blue and red.

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**Who acts:** speck · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** fairy ship

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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 (speck), 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:pg66819:22:92
# text = The speck upon the waters was a fairy ship, its prow all golden, its hull bright scarlet, its sails blue and red.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	speck	speck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	prow	prow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hull	hull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the speck upon the waters | a fairy ship and speck's hull bright scarlet |  |  |  | speck's prow *appos*; speck's hull bright scarlet *conj* | 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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