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title: On each side were seats for fifty rowers, and in each of the fifty r… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: On each side were seats for fifty rowers, and in each of the fifty rowlocks a long and supple oar lay resting. Who acts: seats, each. 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 every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 81

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On each side were seats for fifty rowers, and in each of the fifty rowlocks a long and supple oar lay resting.

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**Who acts:** seats, each · **What happens:** be, lie, rest · **To what, where:** 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 (seats, each), 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:pg66819:33:81
# text = On each side were seats for fifty rowers, and in each of the fifty rowlocks a long and supple oar lay resting.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	rowers	rower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	rowlocks	rowlock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	supple	supple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	oar	oar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
23	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | seats |  |  | each side |  | for fifty rowers | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location |
| 2 | **lie** | past | each of the fifty rowlocks  a long oar |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rest** | gerund | each of the fifty rowlocks  a long oar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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