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title: And the Mistress herself stood at the helm and with gaunt hands wiel… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And the Mistress herself stood at the helm and with gaunt hands wielded the great rudder and steered the vessel out to sea. Who acts: Mistress, gaunt hands. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Pursuit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 17

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And the Mistress herself stood at the helm and with gaunt hands wielded the great rudder and steered the vessel out to sea.

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**Who acts:** Mistress, gaunt hands · **What happens:** stand, wield, steer out · **To what, where:** helm, great rudder, vessel, sea

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Pursuit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mistress, gaunt hands), 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:pg66819:37:17
# text = And the Mistress herself stood at the helm and with gaunt hands wielded the great rudder and steered the vessel out to sea.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	helm	helm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	gaunt	gaunt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	wielded	wield	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	rudder	rudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	steered	steer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	out	out	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the Mistress |  |  | the helm |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at helm=Location |
| 2 | **wield** | past | gaunt hands | the great rudder |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rudder=Theme |
| 3 | **steer out** | past | gaunt hands *not said here* | the vessel |  | sea |  | out *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme to sea=Destination |

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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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