--- title: The Sampo was still safely secured with strong ropes to the bow beam… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: The Sampo was still safely secured with strong ropes to the bow beams of their brave vessel; its wheels were whirring; its levers were at work; it was grinding out great streams of salt to feed the hungry sea. Who acts: wheels, levers, Sampo. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/37/22/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old No…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/) / [The Pursuit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/37/) / 22 # The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 22 The Sampo was still safely secured with strong ropes to the bow beams of their brave vessel; its wheels were whirring; its levers were at work; it was grinding out great streams of salt to feed the hungry sea. **Who acts:** wheels, levers, Sampo · **What happens:** secure, whir, be, grind out, feed, beam · **To what, where:** Sampo, work, great streams, hungry sea, brave vessel 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 (wheels, levers, Sampo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66819:37:22 # text = The Sampo was still safely secured with strong ropes to the bow beams of their brave vessel; its wheels were whirring; its levers were at work; it was grinding out great streams of salt to feed the hungry sea. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Sampo Sampo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 4 still still ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 safely safely ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 secured secure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 ropes rope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 bow bow NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 beams beam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 vessel vessel NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 21 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 whirring whir VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 levers lever NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 26 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 grinding grind VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ _ 33 out out ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 streams stream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **secure** | past · passive | | the Sampo | | | still | with strong ropes; to the bow beams of beams's brave vessel; safely *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with rope=Co-Patient | | 2 | **whir** | past · progressive | Sampo's wheels | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | Sampo's levers | | | work | | | tree rules | | 4 | **grind out** | past · progressive | Sampo | great streams of salt | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument stream=Patient | | 5 | **feed** | to-infinitive | Sampo *not said here* | the hungry sea | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Recipient | | 6 | **beam** | | | beams's brave vessel | | | | | nom beam «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/37/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/37/23/) - ↑ back to [The Pursuit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/37/)