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title: Not even when the storm winds seized him had Ilmarinen felt so helpl… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Not even when the storm winds seized him had Ilmarinen felt so helpless and utterly overcome. Who acts: storm winds, Ilmarinen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Recipe, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 23

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Not even when the storm winds seized him had Ilmarinen felt so helpless and utterly overcome.

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**Who acts:** storm winds, Ilmarinen · **What happens:** not seize, feel, overcome · **To what, where:** Smith

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Recipe. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storm winds, Ilmarinen), 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:pg66819:9:23
# text = Not even when the storm winds seized him had Ilmarinen felt so helpless and utterly overcome.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	helpless	helpless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	utterly	utterly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	overcome	overcome	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **seize** | past | the storm winds | Smith |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | past | Ilmarinen |  |  |  |  | helpless *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **overcome** | present | Ilmarinen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | utterly *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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