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title: The levers and the lighter parts of the framework were still floatin… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The levers and the lighter parts of the framework were still floating upon the water, tossed hither and thither by the waves and the wind. Who acts: levers. 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 99

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The levers and the lighter parts of the framework were still floating upon the water, tossed hither and thither by the waves and the wind.

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**Who acts:** levers · **What happens:** float, toss · **To what, where:** water

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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 (levers), 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:pg66819:38:99
# text = The levers and the lighter parts of the framework were still floating upon the water, tossed hither and thither by the waves and the wind.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	levers	lever	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	framework	framework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	floating	float	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	tossed	toss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	18	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | past · progressive | the levers and the lighter parts of the framework *not said here* |  |  | the water | still |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon water=Trajectory |
| 2 | **toss** | past | the levers and the lighter parts of the framework |  |  | thither |  | by the waves and the wind; hither *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by wave=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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