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title: But, swiftly as the heroes rowed, their vessel moved not half so swi… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: But, swiftly as the heroes rowed, their vessel moved not half so swiftly as the warship of Pohyola. Who acts: heroes, vessel. 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 clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 63

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But, swiftly as the heroes rowed, their vessel moved not half so swiftly as the warship of Pohyola.

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**Who acts:** heroes, vessel · **What happens:** row, not move · **To what, where:** half

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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, vessel), 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:pg66819:37:63
# text = But, swiftly as the heroes rowed, their vessel moved not half so swiftly as the warship of Pohyola.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	rowed	row	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
13	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	11	obj	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	warship	warship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **row** | past | the heroes |  |  |  |  | swiftly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **move** | past | heroes's vessel | half |  |  |  | as the warship of Pohyola; swiftly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent half=Theme |

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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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