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title: With masterly skill he piloted the vessel through narrow ways, he gu… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: With masterly skill he piloted the vessel through narrow ways, he guided it along deep, winding channels, and finally steered it to the mainland, where it rested in a safe, well-sheltered haven close by the village of Pohyola. Who acts: Wainamoinen, channel. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale o
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 48

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With masterly skill he piloted the vessel through narrow ways, he guided it along deep, winding channels, and finally steered it to the mainland, where it rested in a safe, well-sheltered haven close by the village of Pohyola.

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**Who acts:** Wainamoinen, channel · **What happens:** pilot, guide, wind, steer, rest, shelter · **To what, where:** vessel, narrow ways, deep, channels, channel, mainland

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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 (Wainamoinen, channel), 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:pg66819:34:48
# text = With masterly skill he piloted the vessel through narrow ways, he guided it along deep, winding channels, and finally steered it to the mainland, where it rested in a safe, well-sheltered haven close by the village of Pohyola.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	masterly	masterly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	piloted	pilot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	guided	guide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	along	along	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	winding	wind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	channels	channel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	steered	steer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	mainland	mainland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
34	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
36	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	38	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	sheltered	shelter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	amod	_	_
39	haven	haven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
40	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
41	by	by	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pilot** | past | Wainamoinen | the vessel |  | narrow ways |  | with masterly skill | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **guide** | past | Wainamoinen | vessel |  | deep |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme along deep=Destination |
| 3 | **wind** | gerund | Wainamoinen *not said here* | channels |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent channel=Theme |
| 4 | **steer** | past | Wainamoinen *not said here* | channel |  | the mainland |  | finally *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to mainland=Destination |
| 5 | **rest** | past | channel |  |  | a safe sheltered haven |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in haven=Location |
| 6 | **shelter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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