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title: As the wavelets rippled against the sides of the pretty vessel and c… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: As the wavelets rippled against the sides of the pretty vessel and caused its keel to grate upon the sandy beach, it gave forth groans and lamentations like the cries of some living creature suffering from sorrow or pain. Who acts: wavelets, keel, living creature suffering. A sentence of «The Sampo:
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 48

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As the wavelets rippled against the sides of the pretty vessel and caused its keel to grate upon the sandy beach, it gave forth groans and lamentations like the cries of some living creature suffering from sorrow or pain.

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**Who acts:** wavelets, keel, living creature suffering · **What happens:** ripple, cause, grate, give, live, cry · **To what, where:** sides, keel, groans

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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 (wavelets, keel, living creature suffering), 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:pg66819:33:48
# text = As the wavelets rippled against the sides of the pretty vessel and caused its keel to grate upon the sandy beach, it gave forth groans and lamentations like the cries of some living creature suffering from sorrow or pain.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wavelets	wavelet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rippled	ripple	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	against	against	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	keel	keel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	grate	grate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	groans	groan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	lamentations	lamentation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	nsubj	_	_
34	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	amod	_	_
35	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	suffering	suffering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ripple** | past | the wavelets |  |  | the sides of the pretty vessel |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against side=Location |
| 2 | **cause** | past | the wavelets *not said here* | vessel's keel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grate** | to-infinitive | vessel's keel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the sandy beach | vn appeal-31.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **give** | past | keel | groans and lamentations |  |  |  | like the cries of living creature suffering from sorrow or pain; forth *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent groan=Theme |
| 5 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **cry** |  | living creature suffering from sorrow or pain |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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