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title: It was a red ship speeding onward, and the rainbow was the spray tha… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a red ship speeding onward, and the rainbow was the spray that she dashed from her cleaving prow. Who acts: rainbow, red ship, Maiden. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 122

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It was a red ship speeding onward, and the rainbow was the spray that she dashed from her cleaving prow.

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**Who acts:** rainbow, red ship, Maiden · **What happens:** be, speed, dash · **To what, where:** red ship, spray, cleaving prow

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rainbow, red ship, Maiden), 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:pg66819:33:122
# text = It was a red ship speeding onward, and the rainbow was the spray that she dashed from her cleaving prow.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	speeding	speed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	spray	spray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	dashed	dash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	cleaving	cleaving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	prow	prow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | rainbow | a red ship and the spray |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **speed** | gerund | a red ship and the spray *not said here* |  |  |  |  | onward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the rainbow | the spray |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **dash** | past | Maiden |  |  | Maiden's cleaving prow |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from prow=Trajectory |

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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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