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title: All the winds, save the North Wind alone, assailed the heroes’ galla… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: All the winds, save the North Wind alone, assailed the heroes’ gallant vessel. Who acts: winds. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 126

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All the winds, save the North Wind alone, assailed the heroes’ gallant vessel.

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**Who acts:** winds · **What happens:** save, assail · **To what, where:** North Wind, gallant vessel

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (winds), 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:pg66819:36:126
# text = All the winds, save the North Wind alone, assailed the heroes’ gallant vessel.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	assailed	assail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	gallant	gallant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | infinitive | all winds | the North Wind |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme |
| 2 | **assail** | past |  | the heroes's gallant vessel |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Patient |

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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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