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title: O waves, do not play too roughly with us, do not fill our ship with… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: O waves, do not play too roughly with us, do not fill our ship with water, do not break her ribs or hull beams. Who acts: O waves. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 143

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O waves, do not play too roughly with us, do not fill our ship with water, do not break her ribs or hull beams.

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**Who acts:** O waves · **What happens:** not play, not fill, not break · **To what, where:** ship, ribs, O waves

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (O waves), 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:pg66819:36:143
# text = O waves, do not play too roughly with us, do not fill our ship with water, do not break her ribs or hull beams.
1	O	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	ribs	rib	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	hull	hull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **play** | infinitive · do-support | O waves *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with us; roughly *property* | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with we=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **not** **fill** | infinitive · do-support | O waves *not said here* | our ship |  |  |  | with water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ship=Patient with water=Instrument |
| 3 | **not** **break** | infinitive · do-support | O waves *not said here* | sea's ribs or hull beams |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rib=Patient |

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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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