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title: The fragments of the pictured cover had already been carried far awa… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The fragments of the pictured cover had already been carried far away, were sailing like little ships across the vast expanse of the sea. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 100

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The fragments of the pictured cover had already been carried far away, were sailing like little ships across the vast expanse of the sea.

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**What happens:** picture, carry, sail · **To what, where:** fragments, vast expanse

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66819:38:100
# text = The fragments of the pictured cover had already been carried far away, were sailing like little ships across the vast expanse of the sea.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fragments	fragment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	pictured	picture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	already	already	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	across	across	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	expanse	expanse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **picture** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **carry** | past · perfect · passive |  | the fragments of the pictured cover |  |  |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **sail** | past · progressive |  |  |  | the vast expanse of the sea |  | like little ships | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across expanse=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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