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title: “Blow storm wind, blow whirlwind, Let nothing delay you. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Blow storm wind, blow whirlwind, Let nothing delay you. Who acts: you, nothing. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tempest, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 21

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“Blow storm wind, blow whirlwind, Let nothing delay you.

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**Who acts:** you, nothing · **What happens:** blow, let, delay · **To what, where:** storm wind, whirlwind, nothing, you

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tempest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, nothing), 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:pg66819:8:21
# text = “Blow storm wind, blow whirlwind, Let nothing delay you.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Blow	blow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	blow	blow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	obj	_	_
11	delay	delay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | storm wind |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent wind=Patient |
| 2 | **blow** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | whirlwind |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent whirlwind=Patient |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **delay** *in a quote* | infinitive | nothing *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent you=Source |

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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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