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title: First came the East Wind, riding over the sea, combing the crests of… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: First came the East Wind, riding over the sea, combing the crests of the waves with his clammy fingers, and rushing with chilly breath through the dank marshes and across the lonely meadows. Who acts: East Wind. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 2

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First came the East Wind, riding over the sea, combing the crests of the waves with his clammy fingers, and rushing with chilly breath through the dank marshes and across the lonely meadows.

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**Who acts:** East Wind · **What happens:** come, ride, comb, rush · **To what, where:** sea, crests, dank marshes

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging 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 (East Wind), 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:pg66819:11:2
# text = First came the East Wind, riding over the sea, combing the crests of the waves with his clammy fingers, and rushing with chilly breath through the dank marshes and across the lonely meadows.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	combing	comb	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	crests	crest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	clammy	clammy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	chilly	chilly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	through	through	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	dank	dank	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	marshes	marsh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	across	across	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the East Wind |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ride** | gerund | the East Wind *not said here* |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over sea=Trajectory |
| 3 | **comb** | gerund | the East Wind *not said here* | the crests of the waves |  |  |  | with Ilmarinen's clammy fingers | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crest=Patient |
| 4 | **rush** | gerund | the East Wind *not said here* |  |  | the dank marshes and the lonely meadows |  | with chilly breath | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through marsh=Trajectory |

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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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