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title: And now on the fated red ship of the heroes an awful struggle began—… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And now on the fated red ship of the heroes an awful struggle began—a struggle the bloodiest and the woefullest that sea or sky ever looked upon or minstrel’s song ever painted in words. Who acts: awful struggle, woefullest sea. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Bald
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 56

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And now on the fated red ship of the heroes an awful struggle began—a struggle the bloodiest and the woefullest that sea or sky ever looked upon or minstrel’s song ever painted in words.

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**Who acts:** awful struggle, woefullest sea · **What happens:** begin, look, paint · **To what, where:** fated red ship, words

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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 (awful struggle, woefullest sea), 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:pg66819:38:56
# text = And now on the fated red ship of the heroes an awful struggle began—a struggle the bloodiest and the woefullest that sea or sky ever looked upon or minstrel’s song ever painted in words.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	fated	fated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	struggle	struggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	struggle	struggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bloodiest	bloody	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	woefullest	woeful	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	28	advmod	_	_
28	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
29	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	35	advmod	_	_
35	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | a awful struggle |  |  | the fated red ship | now | of the heroes; bloody *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **look** | past | that woefullest sea or sky |  |  |  | ever | upon minstrel song | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon song=Theme |
| 3 | **paint** | participle | that woefullest sea or sky *not said here* |  |  | words | ever |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in word=Destination |

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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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