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title: It is she that has lulled the South Wind to sleep and halted my voya… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: It is she that has lulled the South Wind to sleep and halted my voyage at its very beginning. Who acts: South Wind, my, more. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 46

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It is she that has lulled the South Wind to sleep and halted my voyage at its very beginning.

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**Who acts:** South Wind, my, more · **What happens:** be, sleep, halt, voyage, begin · **To what, where:** more, voyage, beginning

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (South Wind, my, more), 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:pg66819:19:46
# text = It is she that has lulled the South Wind to sleep and halted my voyage at its very beginning.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	lulled	lull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	halted	halt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect · passive | the South Wind | more |  |  |  | Tra *nsubj:pass*; that *nsubj*; lull *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | the South Wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **halt** | past | the South Wind *not said here* | my voyage |  |  | at more's beginning |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector voyage=Eventuality |
| 4 | **voyage** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **begin** |  | more |  |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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