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title: “Who is it that comes on the storm wind’s back, and yet so quietly t… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Who is it that comes on the storm wind’s back, and yet so quietly that he does not rouse nor waken my watch dogs?” Who acts: wind. 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 34

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“Who is it that comes on the storm wind’s back, and yet so quietly that he does not rouse nor waken my watch dogs?”

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**Who acts:** wind · **What happens:** be, not rouse, waken · **To what, where:** watch dogs

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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 (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:pg66819:8:34
# text = “Who is it that comes on the storm wind’s back, and yet so quietly that he does not rouse nor waken my watch dogs?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	rouse	rouse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
23	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	24	cc	_	_
24	waken	waken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  | yet | Who *nsubj*; turmoil *nsubj*; that *nsubj*; come, quietly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **rouse** *in a quote* | present · do-support | wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **waken** *in a quote* | infinitive | wind *not said here* | my watch dogs |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |

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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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