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title: So they rode onward, close to the water-side, listening and looking… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: So they rode onward, close to the water-side, listening and looking and drawing nearer and nearer to the place from whence the strange sounds issued. Who acts: eyes. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 46

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So they rode onward, close to the water-side, listening and looking and drawing nearer and nearer to the place from whence the strange sounds issued.

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**Who acts:** eyes · **What happens:** ride, listen, look, draw, issue · **To what, where:** place, strange sounds

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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 (eyes), 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:pg66819:33:46
# text = So they rode onward, close to the water-side, listening and looking and drawing nearer and nearer to the place from whence the strange sounds issued.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
18	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	issued	issue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  | close, onward *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **listen** | gerund | eyes *= eye* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | eyes *= eye* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **draw** | gerund | eyes *= eye* *not said here* |  |  | the place |  | near *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to place=Destination |
| 5 | **issue** | participle · passive |  | the strange sounds |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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