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title: On the third day it sailed through narrow straits between small isla… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: On the third day it sailed through narrow straits between small islands, approaching by stealth the longed-for haven of Pohyola. Who acts: ship. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 6

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On the third day it sailed through narrow straits between small islands, approaching by stealth the longed-for haven of Pohyola.

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**Who acts:** ship · **What happens:** sail, approach, long · **To what, where:** narrow straits, longed haven

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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 (ship), 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:pg66819:34:6
# text = On the third day it sailed through narrow straits between small islands, approaching by stealth the longed-for haven of Pohyola.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	straits	strait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	between	between	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	stealth	stealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	longed	long	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	haven	haven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | past | ship |  |  | narrow straits between small islands | day |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through strait=Trajectory |
| 2 | **approach** | gerund | ship *not said here* | the longed haven of Pohyola |  |  |  | by stealth | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haven=Theme |
| 3 | **long** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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