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title: Many of the people saw the lone sailor as he moored his vessel to th… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Many of the people saw the lone sailor as he moored his vessel to the shore, but none had the courage to go and meet him. Who acts: Many people, cattle, none. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 8

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Many of the people saw the lone sailor as he moored his vessel to the shore, but none had the courage to go and meet him.

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**Who acts:** Many people, cattle, none · **What happens:** see, moor, have, go, meet · **To what, where:** lone sailor, vessel, courage, cattle

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many people, cattle, none), 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:pg66819:32:8
# text = Many of the people saw the lone sailor as he moored his vessel to the shore, but none had the courage to go and meet him.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	lone	lone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sailor	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	moored	moor	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the Many people | the lone sailor |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sailor=Stimulus |
| 2 | **moor** | past | cattle | cattle's vessel |  |  |  | to the shore | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent vessel=Patient to shore=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **have** | past | none | the courage |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | to-infinitive | none *not said here* | the courage *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **meet** | infinitive | none *not said here* | cattle |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |

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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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