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title: “Sweet South Wind, whispering soft and low, Come fill these sails an… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Sweet South Wind, whispering soft and low, Come fill these sails and gently blow— Breathe mildly while the storm winds sleep, And waft us swiftly o’er the deep. Who acts: Sweet South Wind, storm. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching, with its dep
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 47

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“Sweet South Wind, whispering soft and low, Come fill these sails and gently blow— Breathe mildly while the storm winds sleep, And waft us swiftly o’er the deep.

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**Who acts:** Sweet South Wind, storm · **What happens:** whisper, come, fill, blow, breathe, wind · **To what, where:** sails, sleep

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sweet South Wind, storm), 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:pg66819:18:47
# text = “Sweet South Wind, whispering soft and low, Come fill these sails and gently blow— Breathe mildly while the storm winds sleep, And waft us swiftly o’er the deep.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	whispering	whisper	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl	_	_
7	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
12	fill	fill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
20	mildly	mildly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	winds	wind	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
25	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	waft	waft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
29	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	_
30	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	o’er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whisper** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | gerund | Sweet South Wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soft *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | Sweet South Wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fill** *in a quote* | present | Sweet South Wind | this sails |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sail=Patient |
| 4 | **blow** *in a quote* | infinitive | Sweet South Wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **breathe** *in a quote* | infinitive | Sweet South Wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  | mildly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **wind** *in a quote* | present | the storm | sleep |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sleep=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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