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title: “I am sick of fishing, sick of sailing on these barren waters, sick… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “I am sick of fishing, sick of sailing on these barren waters, sick of life itself.” Who acts: sick. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 15

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“I am sick of fishing, sick of sailing on these barren waters, sick of life itself.”

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**Who acts:** sick · **What happens:** be, sail · **To what, where:** barren waters

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sick), 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:pg66819:31:15
# text = “I am sick of fishing, sick of sailing on these barren waters, sick of life itself.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	barren	barren	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	18	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | sick |  |  |  |  | of fishing; sick *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* |  | sick *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sail** *in a quote* | gerund | sick *not said here* |  |  | this barren waters |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* |  | sick *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of life  life | 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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