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title: He dismissed the North Wind with warm thanks for his friendly servic… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He dismissed the North Wind with warm thanks for his friendly service; and then with a few skilful strokes of the oar, he drove his stanch little boat high up on the sloping beach. Who acts: voyager, North. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 115

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He dismissed the North Wind with warm thanks for his friendly service; and then with a few skilful strokes of the oar, he drove his stanch little boat high up on the sloping beach.

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**Who acts:** voyager, North · **What happens:** dismiss, wind, drive, slope, service, stroke · **To what, where:** stanch little boat, sloping beach, oar

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voyager, North), 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:pg66819:12:115
# text = He dismissed the North Wind with warm thanks for his friendly service; and then with a few skilful strokes of the oar, he drove his stanch little boat high up on the sloping beach.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dismissed	dismiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	Wind	wind	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	skilful	skilful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	strokes	stroke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	oar	oar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
28	stanch	stanch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
32	up	up	ADV	RB	_	26	advcl	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	sloping	slope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	amod	_	_
36	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	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 | **dismiss** | past | voyager |  |  |  |  | with a few skilful strokes of the oar | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **wind** | present | the North |  |  |  |  | with warm thanks for voyager's friendly service | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **drive** | past | voyager | voyager's stanch little boat |  | the sloping beach |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boat=Theme on beach=Destination |
| 4 | **slope** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **service** |  | voyager |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **stroke** |  |  | the oar |  |  |  |  | nom stroke «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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