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title: The South Wind breathed on the sails of blue and red, and the West W… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The South Wind breathed on the sails of blue and red, and the West Wind whispered joy in the nostrils of the fleeting gray racer. Who acts: South Wind, West Wind. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Friendly Rivals, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 51

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The South Wind breathed on the sails of blue and red, and the West Wind whispered joy in the nostrils of the fleeting gray racer.

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**Who acts:** South Wind, West Wind · **What happens:** breathe, whisper · **To what, where:** sails, joy, nostrils

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Friendly Rivals. 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, West 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:pg66819:21:51
# text = The South Wind breathed on the sails of blue and red, and the West Wind whispered joy in the nostrils of the fleeting gray racer.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	breathed	breathe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	fleeting	fleeting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	racer	racer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breathe** | past | the South Wind |  |  | the sails of blue |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on sail=Destination |
| 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | the West Wind | joy |  | the nostrils of the fleeting gray racer |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Topic |

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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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