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title: And from his nostrils came a sweetness like that of the gentle South… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And from his nostrils came a sweetness like that of the gentle South Wind after it has passed over vast gardens of early violets. Who acts: sweetness. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 76

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And from his nostrils came a sweetness like that of the gentle South Wind after it has passed over vast gardens of early violets.

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**Who acts:** sweetness · **What happens:** come, pass · **To what, where:** nostrils, sweetness, vast gardens

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sweetness), 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:pg66819:17:76
# text = And from his nostrils came a sweetness like that of the gentle South Wind after it has passed over vast gardens of early violets.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sweetness	sweetness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	violets	violet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a sweetness like that of the gentle South Wind |  |  | planter's nostrils |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from nostril=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **pass** | present · perfect · passive |  | sweetness |  | vast gardens of early violets |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme over garden=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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