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title: Bravely he launched out toward the speeding vessel, and quickly he c… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Bravely he launched out toward the speeding vessel, and quickly he came abreast of her fast-receding stern. Who acts: fisherman. 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 147

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Bravely he launched out toward the speeding vessel, and quickly he came abreast of her fast-receding stern.

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**Who acts:** fisherman · **What happens:** launch out, come, recede

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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 (fisherman), 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:pg66819:33:147
# text = Bravely he launched out toward the speeding vessel, and quickly he came abreast of her fast-receding stern.
1	Bravely	bravely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	launched	launch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	speeding	speeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	abreast	abreast	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
17	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	receding	recede	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	stern	stern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **launch out** | past | fisherman |  |  |  |  | toward the speeding vessel; bravely *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | fisherman |  |  |  |  | of Dame's fast receding stern; abreast, quickly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of stern=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **recede** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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