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description: From morning until mid-day, and from mid-day until evening, it ploughed its way through the surging waves; the land faded from sight, and the heroes, looking forward, could see naught but one vast field of tossing waters. Who acts: vessel, land, heroes, one vast field. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wo
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 52

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From morning until mid-day, and from mid-day until evening, it ploughed its way through the surging waves; the land faded from sight, and the heroes, looking forward, could see naught but one vast field of tossing waters.

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**Who acts:** vessel, land, heroes, one vast field · **What happens:** plough, fade, look, see, toss · **To what, where:** way, surging waves, sight, naught, waters

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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 (vessel, land, heroes, one vast field), 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:pg66819:36:52
# text = From morning until mid-day, and from mid-day until evening, it ploughed its way through the surging waves; the land faded from sight, and the heroes, looking forward, could see naught but one vast field of tossing waters.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
3	until	until	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	mid-day	mid-day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	mid-day	mid-day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
9	until	until	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	ploughed	plough	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	surging	surging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	faded	fade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
32	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
36	naught	naught	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	35	obj	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
39	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
41	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
42	tossing	toss	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	40	acl	_	_
43	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plough** | past | vessel | vessel's way |  | the surging waves | morning |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent way=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **fade** | past | the land |  |  | sight |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | the heroes |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | could | the heroes *not said here* | naught  one vast field |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer naught=Stimulus |
| 5 | **toss** | gerund | one vast field *not said here* | waters |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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