--- title: While the trade wind blows, just to fan her as she goes, Till I see… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics description: While the trade wind blows, just to fan her as she goes, Till I see her kerchief waving, as I stand upon the quay. Who acts: trade wind, wind, I, kerchief. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/20/120/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/) / [Round About Nasik.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/20/) / 120 # Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 120 While the trade wind blows, just to fan her as she goes, Till I see her kerchief waving, as I stand upon the quay. **Who acts:** trade wind, wind, I, kerchief · **What happens:** blow, fan, go, see, wave, stand · **To what, where:** wind, kerchief, quay This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trade wind, wind, I, kerchief), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg76982:20:122 # text = While the trade wind blows, just to fan her as she goes, Till I see her kerchief waving, as I stand upon the quay. 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 blows blow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 just just ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 fan fan VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 Till till SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 kerchief kerchief NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 waving wave VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 25 upon upon ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 quay quay NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blow** | present | the trade wind | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **fan** | to-infinitive | | wind | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | present | wind | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **see** | present | I | wind's kerchief | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kerchief=Stimulus | | 5 | **wave** | gerund | wind's kerchief *not said here* | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **stand** | present | I | | | the quay | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon quay=Location | 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. **Text:** «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/20/119/) - next →: [sentence 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/20/121/) - ↑ back to [Round About Nasik.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/20/)