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title: She saw the inky clouds swiftly sailing from the South Land and the… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: She saw the inky clouds swiftly sailing from the South Land and the gray wolves of the air racing madly over the sea. Who acts: Louhi, inky clouds, air. 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 claus
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 29

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She saw the inky clouds swiftly sailing from the South Land and the gray wolves of the air racing madly over the sea.

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**Who acts:** Louhi, inky clouds, air · **What happens:** see, sail, race · **To what, where:** inky clouds, South Land, sea

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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 (Louhi, inky clouds, air), 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:pg66819:8:29
# text = She saw the inky clouds swiftly sailing from the South Land and the gray wolves of the air racing madly over the sea.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	inky	inky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
7	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	racing	race	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	madly	madly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Louhi | the inky clouds |  |  |  | swiftly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sail** | gerund | the inky clouds *not said here* |  |  | the South Land and the gray wolves of the air |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from land=Trajectory |
| 3 | **race** | gerund | the air *not said here* |  |  | the sea |  | madly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Trajectory |

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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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