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title: At every sweep of the hundred oars she seemed to leap from the waves… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: At every sweep of the hundred oars she seemed to leap from the waves, to spring forward like a wild beast pouncing upon its prey. Who acts: warship, wild beast. 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 pragmat
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 2

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At every sweep of the hundred oars she seemed to leap from the waves, to spring forward like a wild beast pouncing upon its prey.

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**Who acts:** warship, wild beast · **What happens:** seem, leap, spring, pounce · **To what, where:** sweep, waves, prey

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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 (warship, wild beast), 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:pg66819:38:2
# text = At every sweep of the hundred oars she seemed to leap from the waves, to spring forward like a wild beast pouncing upon its prey.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	sweep	sweep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	oars	oar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	leap	leap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	spring	spring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	pouncing	pounce	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | warship |  |  | every sweep of the hundred oars |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **leap** | to-infinitive | warship *not said here* |  |  | the waves |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from wave=Trajectory |
| 3 | **spring** | to-infinitive | warship *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a wild beast; forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pounce** | gerund | a wild beast *not said here* |  |  | beast's prey |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon prey=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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