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title: Then the hundred rowers took to their oars again and the ship bounde… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the hundred rowers took to their oars again and the ship bounded forward into the vast and trackless sea of the North. Who acts: hundred rowers, ship. 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 eve
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 149

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Then the hundred rowers took to their oars again and the ship bounded forward into the vast and trackless sea of the North.

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**Who acts:** hundred rowers, ship · **What happens:** take, bound · **To what, where:** vast 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 (hundred rowers, ship), 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:pg66819:33:149
# text = Then the hundred rowers took to their oars again and the ship bounded forward into the vast and trackless sea of the North.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	rowers	rower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	oars	oar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	bounded	bound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	trackless	trackless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the hundred rowers |  |  |  | then; again | to rowers's oars *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to oar=Result |
| 2 | **bound** | past | the ship |  |  | the vast sea of the North |  | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sea=Destination |

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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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