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title: As the boat neared the shore he shouted a great sky-shaking shout as… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: As the boat neared the shore he shouted a great sky-shaking shout as was his custom when arriving home from a long voyage. Who acts: shore. 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 38

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As the boat neared the shore he shouted a great sky-shaking shout as was his custom when arriving home from a long voyage.

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**Who acts:** shore · **What happens:** near, shout, shake, be, arrive · **To what, where:** great shaking shout, long voyage

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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 (shore), 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:pg66819:31:38
# text = As the boat neared the shore he shouted a great sky-shaking shout as was his custom when arriving home from a long voyage.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	neared	near	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
11	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	shout	shout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
20	arriving	arrive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
21	home	home	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **near** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as the boat | tree rules |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | the shore | a great shaking shout |  |  |  | wiser *= wise* *nsubj* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shout=Topic |
| 3 | **shake** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | sky *compound* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as wiser's custom; wiser *= wise* *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 5 | **arrive** | gerund | the shore *not said here* |  |  | a long voyage |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from voyage=Initial\_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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