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title: By now the red ship had floated far, and the few remaining heroes sh… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: By now the red ship had floated far, and the few remaining heroes shouted as, looking upward, they saw the friendly headland looming right above them. Who acts: few remaining heroes, heroes, friendly headland. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of th
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 87

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By now the red ship had floated far, and the few remaining heroes shouted as, looking upward, they saw the friendly headland looming right above them.

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**Who acts:** few remaining heroes, heroes, friendly headland · **What happens:** float, shout, look, see, loom · **To what, where:** red ship, friendly headland

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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 (few remaining heroes, heroes, friendly headland), 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:pg66819:38:87
# text = By now the red ship had floated far, and the few remaining heroes shouted as, looking upward, they saw the friendly headland looming right above them.
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	floated	float	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	remaining	remaining	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	shouted	shout	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
19	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	headland	headland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	looming	loom	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	right	right	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	above	above	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | past · perfect · passive |  | the red ship |  |  | now | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | participle | the few remaining heroes |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | the few remaining heroes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upward *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | past | heroes *= hero* | the friendly headland |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer headland=Stimulus |
| 5 | **loom** | gerund | the friendly headland *not said here* |  |  |  |  | above heroes *= hero* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above they=Location |

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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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