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title: Instantly the benches were filled with rowers; all the young men and… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Instantly the benches were filled with rowers; all the young men and also the fifty fair maidens bent to their work; the water boiled with the strokes of a hundred long oars. Who acts: benches. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight, with its dependenc
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 44

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Instantly the benches were filled with rowers; all the young men and also the fifty fair maidens bent to their work; the water boiled with the strokes of a hundred long oars.

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**Who acts:** benches · **What happens:** fill, bend, boil, work, stroke · **To what, where:** benches, fifty fair maidens, work, water, hundred long oars

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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 (benches), 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:pg66819:36:44
# text = Instantly the benches were filled with rowers; all the young men and also the fifty fair maidens bent to their work; the water boiled with the strokes of a hundred long oars.
1	Instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	benches	bench	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	rowers	rower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
19	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
26	boiled	boil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	strokes	stroke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
33	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	oars	oar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | past · passive |  | the benches |  |  |  | with rowers; all young men and the fifty fair maidens *obl*; the water *obl*; instantly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with rower=Instrument |
| 2 | **bend** | participle |  | the fifty fair maidens *not said here* |  | benches's work |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to work=Location |
| 3 | **boil** | participle |  | the water *not said here* |  |  |  | with the strokes of hundred long oars | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient with stroke=Instrument |
| 4 | **work** |  | benches *= bench* |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **stroke** |  |  | hundred long oars |  |  |  |  | nom stroke «act transitive»: of=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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