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title: With eyes that never failed and arms that never tired the Minstrel s… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: With eyes that never failed and arms that never tired the Minstrel stood by the helm and guided the vessel around the jutting headland and straight forward into the great white sea. Who acts: eyes, arms. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele, with it
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 1

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With eyes that never failed and arms that never tired the Minstrel stood by the helm and guided the vessel around the jutting headland and straight forward into the great white sea.

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**Who acts:** eyes, arms · **What happens:** not fail, stand, guide, jut · **To what, where:** vessel, jutting headland

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, arms), 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:pg66819:34:1
# text = With eyes that never failed and arms that never tired the Minstrel stood by the helm and guided the vessel around the jutting headland and straight forward into the great white sea.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	helm	helm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	guided	guide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	around	around	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	jutting	jut	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	_
24	headland	headland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
26	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fail** | past | eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stand** | past | arms |  |  |  |  | by the helm | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by helm=Location |
| 3 | **guide** | past | eyes *not said here* | the vessel |  | the jutting headland and the great white sea |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme around headland=Destination |
| 4 | **jut** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «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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