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title: They could see the hundred long oars rising and falling as though mo… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: They could see the hundred long oars rising and falling as though moved by a single hand. Who acts: heroes, hundred long oars. 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 80

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They could see the hundred long oars rising and falling as though moved by a single hand.

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**Who acts:** heroes, hundred long oars · **What happens:** see, rise, fall, move · **To what, where:** hundred long oars

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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, hundred long oars), 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:pg66819:37:80
# text = They could see the hundred long oars rising and falling as though moved by a single hand.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	oars	oar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	though	though	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | could | heroes *= hero* | the hundred long oars |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oar=Stimulus |
| 2 | **rise** | gerund | the hundred long oars *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fall** | gerund | the hundred long oars *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **move** | participle | the hundred long oars *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a single hand; though *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by hand=Trajectory |

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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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