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title: All night, all day, the willing little ship speeded southward, cutti… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: All night, all day, the willing little ship speeded southward, cutting through the waves with lightning swiftness, throwing the foam to the right and the left, leaving a track of boiling waters behind it. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden, 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 33

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All night, all day, the willing little ship speeded southward, cutting through the waves with lightning swiftness, throwing the foam to the right and the left, leaving a track of boiling waters behind it.

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**What happens:** speede, cut, throw, leave · **To what, where:** willing little ship, foam, right, track, ship

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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: 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:pg66819:31:33
# text = All night, all day, the willing little ship speeded southward, cutting through the waves with lightning swiftness, throwing the foam to the right and the left, leaving a track of boiling waters behind it.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	speeded	speede	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	southward	southward	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	swiftness	swiftness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	boiling	boiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
38	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speede** | participle · passive |  | the willing little ship |  |  | night | southward *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cut** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with lightning swiftness; through the waves | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through wave=Patient |
| 3 | **throw** | gerund |  | the foam |  | the right and the left |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent foam=Theme to right=Destination |
| 4 | **leave** | gerund |  | a track of boiling waters |  | ship |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent track=Theme behind it=Location |

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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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