The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 2

First came the East Wind, riding over the sea, combing the crests of the waves with his clammy fingers, and rushing with chilly breath through the dank marshes and across the lonely meadows.

Who acts: East Wind · What happens: come, ride, comb, rush · To what, where: sea, crests, dank marshes

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (East Wind), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Wind	det
4	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Wind	compound
5	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 riding	punct
7	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 came	advcl
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 riding	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 combing	punct
12	combing	comb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 riding	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 crests	det
14	crests	crest	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 combing	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 waves	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 waves	det
17	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 crests	nmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 fingers	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 fingers	nmod:poss
20	clammy	clammy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fingers	amod
21	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 combing	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rushing	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 rushing	cc
24	rushing	rush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 came	advcl
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 breath	case
26	chilly	chilly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 breath	amod
27	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rushing	obl
28	through	through	ADP	_	31 marshes	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 marshes	det
30	dank	dank	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 marshes	amod
31	marshes	marsh	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 rushing	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 meadows	cc
33	across	across	ADP	_	36 meadows	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 meadows	det
35	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 meadows	amod
36	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 marshes	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the East Wind			first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ride	gerund	the East Wind not said here		the sea		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over sea=Trajectory
3	comb	gerund	the East Wind not said here	the crests of the waves		with Ilmarinen's clammy fingers	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crest=Patient
4	rush	gerund	the East Wind not said here		the dank marshes and the lonely meadows	with chilly breath	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through marsh=Trajectory

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: «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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 2