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title: Like the fierce North Wind sweeping over the hills and rushing throu… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Like the fierce North Wind sweeping over the hills and rushing through the piney forest, the heaving bellows roared. Who acts: fierce North Wind, heaving bellows. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 63

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Like the fierce North Wind sweeping over the hills and rushing through the piney forest, the heaving bellows roared.

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**Who acts:** fierce North Wind, heaving bellows · **What happens:** sweep, rush, roar · **To what, where:** hills, piney forest

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fierce North Wind, heaving bellows), 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:pg66819:10:63
# text = Like the fierce North Wind sweeping over the hills and rushing through the piney forest, the heaving bellows roared.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
6	sweeping	sweep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	piney	piney	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	heaving	heaving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	bellows	bellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	roared	roar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweep** | gerund | the fierce North Wind *not said here* |  |  | the hills |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory |
| 2 | **rush** | gerund | the fierce North Wind *not said here* |  |  | the piney forest |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory |
| 3 | **roar** | past | the heaving bellows |  |  |  |  | like the fierce North Wind | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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:** «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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