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title: The rope that dangled from the prow was seized by helping hands on s… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The rope that dangled from the prow was seized by helping hands on shore and thrown over the mooring post. Who acts: rope. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Old Man’s Wooing, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 51

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The rope that dangled from the prow was seized by helping hands on shore and thrown over the mooring post.

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**Who acts:** rope · **What happens:** dangle, seize, help, throw · **To what, where:** prow, rope, hands, shore, mooring post

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Old Man’s Wooing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rope), 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:pg66819:23:51
# text = The rope that dangled from the prow was seized by helping hands on shore and thrown over the mooring post.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	dangled	dangle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	prow	prow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	helping	help	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	mooring	mooring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dangle** | past | the rope |  |  | the prow |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seize** | past · passive |  | the rope |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **help** | gerund |  | hands |  | shore |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **throw** | participle |  |  |  | the mooring post |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over post=Destination |

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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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