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title: And O, thou North Wind, come and urge the ship along. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And O, thou North Wind, come and urge the ship along. Who acts: North Wind. 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 47

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And O, thou North Wind, come and urge the ship along.

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**Who acts:** North Wind · **What happens:** come, urge · **To what, where:** ship

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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 (North 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:pg66819:36:47
# text = And O, thou North Wind, come and urge the ship along.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
5	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	urge	urge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	along	along	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | North Wind  thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **urge** | infinitive | North Wind  thou *not said here* | the ship |  |  |  | along *property* | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Recipient |

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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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