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title: Meanwhile the heroes on their storm-battered red ship were sailing h… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile the heroes on their storm-battered red ship were sailing hopefully homeward, thanking Jumala for their escape from the fog and the storm. Who acts: heroes. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Pursuit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 21

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Meanwhile the heroes on their storm-battered red ship were sailing hopefully homeward, thanking Jumala for their escape from the fog and the storm.

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**Who acts:** heroes · **What happens:** batter, sail, thank, escape · **To what, where:** homeward, Jumala, fog

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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 (heroes), 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:pg66819:37:21
# text = Meanwhile the heroes on their storm-battered red ship were sailing hopefully homeward, thanking Jumala for their escape from the fog and the storm.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
6	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	battered	batter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
9	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	hopefully	hopefully	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	thanking	thank	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
17	Jumala	Jumala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	escape	escape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **batter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | storm *compound* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sail** | past · progressive | the heroes on heroes's battered red ship | homeward |  |  |  | meanwhile *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme homeward=Trajectory |
| 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | gerund | the heroes on heroes's battered red ship *not said here* |  | Jumala |  |  | for heroes's escape from the fog and the storm | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent jumala=Theme for escape=Attribute |
| 4 | **escape** |  | heroes *= hero* |  |  | the fog and the storm |  |  | nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=agent from=place |

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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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