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title: The doors were open and warm breezes from southern seas breathed thr… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The doors were open and warm breezes from southern seas breathed through the low-raftered hall, playing with the deerskin curtains and with the maiden’s silken hair. Who acts: doors. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs, with its dependency tre
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 10

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The doors were open and warm breezes from southern seas breathed through the low-raftered hall, playing with the deerskin curtains and with the maiden’s silken hair.

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**Who acts:** doors · **What happens:** be, breathe, rafter, play · **To what, where:** southern seas, raftered hall

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doors), 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:pg66819:22:10
# text = The doors were open and warm breezes from southern seas breathed through the low-raftered hall, playing with the deerskin curtains and with the maiden’s silken hair.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	breezes	breeze	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	breathed	breathe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	raftered	rafter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	deerskin	deerskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the doors |  |  |  |  | warm breezes from southern seas *conj*; open *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **breathe** | participle |  | southern seas *not said here* |  | the raftered hall |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rafter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **play** | gerund | the doors *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the deerskin curtains and the maiden's silken hair | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with curtain=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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