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title: “Row hard, row hard, and drive our good ship o’er this wide expanse… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Row hard, row hard, and drive our good ship o’er this wide expanse of water, speed it through this treeless region.” Who acts: Row. 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 86

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“Row hard, row hard, and drive our good ship o’er this wide expanse of water, speed it through this treeless region.”

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**Who acts:** Row · **What happens:** row, drive, speed · **To what, where:** good ship, ship, treeless region

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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 (Row), 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:pg66819:33:86
# text = “Row hard, row hard, and drive our good ship o’er this wide expanse of water, speed it through this treeless region.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	row	row	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	o’er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	expanse	expanse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	speed	speed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	treeless	treeless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **row** *in a quote* | infinitive | Row |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drive** *in a quote* | infinitive | Row *not said here* | our good ship |  |  |  | o'er this wide expanse of water | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme ship=Trajectory |
| 3 | **speed** *in a quote* | infinitive | Row *not said here* | ship |  | this treeless region |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme through region=Trajectory |

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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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