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title: The next moment the vessel’s keel was grating upon the sand; its lon… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The next moment the vessel’s keel was grating upon the sand; its long prow was jutting quite over the safe, inviting beach. Who acts: keel, next moment. 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 of e
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 88

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The next moment the vessel’s keel was grating upon the sand; its long prow was jutting quite over the safe, inviting beach.

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**Who acts:** keel, next moment · **What happens:** grate, jut, invite · **To what, where:** next moment, safe, beach

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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 (keel, next moment), 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:pg66819:38:88
# text = The next moment the vessel’s keel was grating upon the sand; its long prow was jutting quite over the safe, inviting beach.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	keel	keel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	grating	grate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	prow	prow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	jutting	jut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
19	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	inviting	invite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
25	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grate** | past · progressive | the vessel's keel | the next moment *not said here* |  |  |  | upon the sand | vn appeal-31.4-1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus moment=Experiencer |
| 2 | **jut** | past · progressive | the next moment |  |  | the safe |  | keel's long prow *nsubj* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over safe=Location |
| 3 | **invite** | gerund | the next moment *not said here* | beach |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beach=Recipient |

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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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