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title: He changed his theme, and the other side of the boat was filled with… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He changed his theme, and the other side of the boat was filled with maidens—pretty girls, their hair in puffs and curls, with belts of copper round their waists and rings of gold upon their fingers. Who acts: Minstrel. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 79

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He changed his theme, and the other side of the boat was filled with maidens—pretty girls, their hair in puffs and curls, with belts of copper round their waists and rings of gold upon their fingers.

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**Who acts:** Minstrel · **What happens:** change, fill · **To what, where:** theme, other side

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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 (Minstrel), 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:pg66819:33:79
# text = He changed his theme, and the other side of the boat was filled with maidens—pretty girls, their hair in puffs and curls, with belts of copper round their waists and rings of gold upon their fingers.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	theme	theme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	puffs	puff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	curls	curl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	belts	belt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	round	round	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	waists	waist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past | Minstrel | Minstrel's theme |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent theme=Patient |
| 2 | **fill** | past · passive |  | the other side of the boat |  |  |  | with maidens and pretty girls  sides's hair in puffs and curls round sides's waists and rings of gold and belts of copper; upon sides's fingers | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with maiden=Instrument |

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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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