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title: It remained fast in its place and no effort of the rowers could move… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: It remained fast in its place and no effort of the rowers could move it. Who acts: ship, effort. 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 9

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It remained fast in its place and no effort of the rowers could move it.

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**Who acts:** ship, effort · **What happens:** remain, move · **To what, where:** place, ship

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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, effort), 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:pg66819:34:9
# text = It remained fast in its place and no effort of the rowers could move it.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	rowers	rower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | ship |  |  | ship's place |  | fast *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
| 2 | **move** | could | no effort of the rowers | ship |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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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