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title: Blow swiftly, blow fiercely, Blow, blow, I pray you!” — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Blow swiftly, blow fiercely, Blow, blow, I pray you!” Who acts: you, I. 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 22

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Blow swiftly, blow fiercely, Blow, blow, I pray you!”

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** blow, pray · **To what, where:** 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, I), 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:pg66819:8:22
# text = Blow swiftly, blow fiercely, Blow, blow, I pray you!”
1	Blow	blow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	blow	blow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Blow	blow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	blow	blow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | swiftly *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **blow** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fiercely *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **blow** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **blow** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **pray** | present | I | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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