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title: But still the storm raged; the waves dashed furiously against the ve… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: But still the storm raged; the waves dashed furiously against the vessel; the winds howled and fought and gave no heed to Wainamoinen’s prayer; the fog still hung darkly upon the waters or drifted in mist-like clouds before the wind; the eagle of Ahti screamed in vain. Who acts: storm, waves, winds,
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 149

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But still the storm raged; the waves dashed furiously against the vessel; the winds howled and fought and gave no heed to Wainamoinen’s prayer; the fog still hung darkly upon the waters or drifted in mist-like clouds before the wind; the eagle of Ahti screamed in vain.

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**Who acts:** storm, waves, winds, fog, eagle, Wainamoinen · **What happens:** rage, dash, howl, fight, give, hang · **To what, where:** vessel, heed, prayer, waters, like clouds, vain

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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 (storm, waves, winds, fog), 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:pg66819:36:149
# text = But still the storm raged; the waves dashed furiously against the vessel; the winds howled and fought and gave no heed to Wainamoinen’s prayer; the fog still hung darkly upon the waters or drifted in mist-like clouds before the wind; the eagle of Ahti screamed in vain.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	raged	rage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	dashed	dash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	furiously	furiously	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	against	against	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	howled	howl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	still	still	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
33	darkly	darkly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	_
34	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	drifted	drift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	conj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
44	before	before	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	52	punct	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	Ahti	Ahti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
52	screamed	scream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rage** | participle | the storm |  |  |  | still |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dash** | past | the waves |  |  | the vessel |  | furiously *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against vessel=Trajectory |
| 3 | **howl** | past | the winds |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fight** | past | the winds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **give** | past | the winds *not said here* | no heed | Wainamoinen's prayer |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent heed=Theme to prayer=Recipient |
| 6 | **hang** | past | the fog |  |  | the waters | still | darkly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon water=Location |
| 7 | **drift** | participle | the fog *not said here* |  |  | like clouds before the wind |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cloud=Trajectory |
| 8 | **scream** *speech: express* | past | the eagle of Ahti |  |  | vain |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in vain=Location |
| 9 | **pray** |  | Wainamoinen |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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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