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title: He leaped quickly overboard into the shallow water and with anxious… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He leaped quickly overboard into the shallow water and with anxious haste began to gather up the few remaining pieces that were still floating around the vessel. Who acts: treasure, few remaining pieces. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Samp
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 102

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He leaped quickly overboard into the shallow water and with anxious haste began to gather up the few remaining pieces that were still floating around the vessel.

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**Who acts:** treasure, few remaining pieces · **What happens:** leap, begin, gather up, float · **To what, where:** shallow water, few remaining pieces, vessel

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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: who acts (treasure, few remaining pieces), 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:pg66819:38:102
# text = He leaped quickly overboard into the shallow water and with anxious haste began to gather up the few remaining pieces that were still floating around the vessel.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	leaped	leap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	overboard	overboard	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	shallow	shallow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
13	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	remaining	remaining	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	floating	float	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	around	around	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap** | past | treasure |  |  | the shallow water |  | overboard, quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination |
| 2 | **begin** | past | treasure *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with anxious haste | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **gather up** | to-infinitive | treasure *not said here* | the few remaining pieces |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme |
| 4 | **float** | past · progressive | the few remaining pieces |  |  | the vessel | still |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around vessel=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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