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title: What ship is this with crimson prow that ploughs the sea so swiftly?” — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: What ship is this with crimson prow that ploughs the sea so swiftly?” Who acts: ship, crimson prow. 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 128

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What ship is this with crimson prow that ploughs the sea so swiftly?”

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**Who acts:** ship, crimson prow · **What happens:** be, plough · **To what, where:** sea

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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 (ship, crimson prow), 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:pg66819:33:128
# text = What ship is this with crimson prow that ploughs the sea so swiftly?”
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	crimson	crimson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	prow	prow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	ploughs	plough	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | ship |  |  |  |  | with crimson prow; this *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **plough** | present | crimson prow | the sea |  |  |  | swiftly *property* | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent sea=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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