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title: And from them sprang the wealth of the seas, the joy of all fisherme… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And from them sprang the wealth of the seas, the joy of all fishermen, the triumph of sailors, white-sailed merchant-ships and mighty vessels of war. Who acts: sailors. 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
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 125

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And from them sprang the wealth of the seas, the joy of all fishermen, the triumph of sailors, white-sailed merchant-ships and mighty vessels of war.

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**Who acts:** sailors · **What happens:** spring, sail, joy, triumph · **To what, where:** wealth, fishermen

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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 (sailors), 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:pg66819:38:125
# text = And from them sprang the wealth of the seas, the joy of all fishermen, the triumph of sailors, white-sailed merchant-ships and mighty vessels of war.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
4	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	triumph	triumph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	sailed	sail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
25	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring** | past |  | the wealth of the seas |  |  |  | from fragments *= fragment*; the joy of all fishermen and the triumph of sailors and sailed merchant ships and mighty vessels of war *obl* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location wealth=Theme |
| 2 | **sail** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **joy** |  |  | all fishermen |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **triumph** |  | sailors and sailed merchant ships and mighty vessels of war |  |  |  |  |  | nom triumph «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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