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title: Then you must launch the boat, using neither arm nor foot to set it… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then you must launch the boat, using neither arm nor foot to set it floating. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of Beauty, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 71

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Then you must launch the boat, using neither arm nor foot to set it floating.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** launch, use, set, float · **To what, where:** boat, arm

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of Beauty. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg66819:3:71
# text = Then you must launch the boat, using neither arm nor foot to set it floating.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	launch	launch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	12	cc	_	_
12	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	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 | **launch** | must | you | the boat |  |  | then |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | gerund | you *not said here* | neither arm nor foot |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |
| 3 | **set** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | boat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **float** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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