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title: Presently, in a little cove, they saw not a child nor a mother bear… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Presently, in a little cove, they saw not a child nor a mother bear nor even a dove, but a fine large boat with red hull and scarlet prow, and with oars and rowlocks and everything needed for a lengthy voyage. Who acts: eyes. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 47

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Presently, in a little cove, they saw not a child nor a mother bear nor even a dove, but a fine large boat with red hull and scarlet prow, and with oars and rowlocks and everything needed for a lengthy voyage.

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**Who acts:** eyes · **What happens:** not see, need · **To what, where:** child, little cove

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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:pg66819:33:47
# text = Presently, in a little cove, they saw not a child nor a mother bear nor even a dove, but a fine large boat with red hull and scarlet prow, and with oars and rowlocks and everything needed for a lengthy voyage.
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cove	cove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	16	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	20	cc	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	hull	hull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	prow	prow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	oars	oar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	rowlocks	rowlock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	36	conj	_	_
41	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	acl	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	lengthy	lengthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | past | eyes *= eye* | a child nor a mother bear nor a dove |  | a little cove |  | with oars  everything and rowlocks; a fine large boat with red hull and scarlet prow *obl*; presently *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 2 | **need** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for a lengthy voyage | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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