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title: High above the masthead of the speeding vessel, the white cliff towe… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: High above the masthead of the speeding vessel, the white cliff towered—it towered even to the clouds and the blue sky beyond. Who acts: white cliff, cliff. 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 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 7

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High above the masthead of the speeding vessel, the white cliff towered—it towered even to the clouds and the blue sky beyond.

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**Who acts:** white cliff, cliff · **What happens:** tower · **To what, where:** masthead

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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 (white cliff, cliff), 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:pg66819:38:7
# text = High above the masthead of the speeding vessel, the white cliff towered—it towered even to the clouds and the blue sky beyond.
1	High	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	above	above	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	masthead	masthead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	speeding	speeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	towered	tower	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	towered	tower	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	beyond	beyond	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tower** | past | the white cliff |  |  | the masthead of the speeding vessel |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above masthead=Location |
| 2 | **tower** | past | cliff |  |  |  |  | to the clouds and the blue sky; beyond *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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