The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 23

So, the chilling East Wind, the whistling South Wind, the laughing West Wind, and the blustering North Wind, joined together in giving aid to the wizard Smith.

What happens: chill, whistle, laugh, bluster, join, give · To what, where: North Wind, aid, wizard Smith, chilling East Wind

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: 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 Wind	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Wind	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Wind	det
4	chilling	chill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 Wind	amod
5	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Wind	compound
6	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Wind	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Wind	det
9	whistling	whistle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 Wind	amod
10	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Wind	compound
11	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Wind	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Wind	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Wind	det
14	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 Wind	amod
15	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Wind	compound
16	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Wind	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 the	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 the	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Wind	conj
20	blustering	bluster	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 the	acl
21	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Wind	compound
22	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 blustering	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 joined	punct
24	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 Wind	acl
25	together	together	ADV	_	24 joined	advmod
26	in	in	SCONJ	_	27 giving	mark
27	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 joined	advcl
28	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 giving	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 Smith	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Smith	det
31	wizard	wizard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Smith	amod
32	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 giving	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Wind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	chill	gerund				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	whistle	gerund				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	laugh	gerund				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bluster speech: other	gerund	North Wind			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Topic
5	join	participle	North Wind not said here		together property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	give	gerund	aid	the wizard Smith		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent aid=Theme to smith=Recipient

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 tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 23