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title: The wind blew hard; the waves dashed high; the lightning flashed; th… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: The wind blew hard; the waves dashed high; the lightning flashed; the thunder rolled. Who acts: wind, lightning, thunder. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Julius Caesar., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Julius Caesar., sentence 21

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The wind blew hard; the waves dashed high; the lightning flashed; the thunder rolled.

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**Who acts:** wind, lightning, thunder · **What happens:** blow, dash, flash, roll · **To what, where:** waves

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Julius Caesar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, lightning, thunder), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg18442:32:21
# text = The wind blew hard; the waves dashed high; the lightning flashed; the thunder rolled.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	dashed	dash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	flashed	flash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | the wind | the waves |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **dash** | participle |  | the waves *not said here* |  |  |  | high *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **flash** | past | the lightning |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **roll** | past | the thunder |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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