The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 47

“Sweet South Wind, whispering soft and low, Come fill these sails and gently blow— Breathe mildly while the storm winds sleep, And waft us swiftly o’er the deep.

Who acts: Sweet South Wind, storm · What happens: whisper, come, fill, blow, breathe, wind · To what, where: sails, sleep

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sweet South Wind, storm), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 Wind	punct
2	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Wind	amod
3	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Wind	compound
4	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 fill	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 whispering	punct
6	whispering	whisper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 Wind	acl
7	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 whispering	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 low	cc
9	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 soft	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Wind	punct
11	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 Wind	acl
12	fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 sails	det
14	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fill	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 blow	cc
16	gently	gently	ADV	_	17 blow	advmod
17	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 fill	conj
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	19 Breathe	punct
19	Breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 blow	conj
20	mildly	mildly	ADV	_	19 Breathe	advmod
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 winds	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 storm	det
23	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 winds	nsubj
24	winds	wind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 Breathe	advcl
25	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 winds	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 deep	punct
27	And	and	CCONJ	_	33 deep	cc
28	waft	waft	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 deep	nsubj
29	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 waft	nmod
30	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	33 deep	advmod
31	o’er	o'er	ADP	_	33 deep	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 deep	det
33	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fill	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 fill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert in a quote	gerund	Sweet South Wind not said here		soft property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come in a quote	infinitive	Sweet South Wind not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fill in a quote	present	Sweet South Wind	this sails		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sail=Patient
4	blow in a quote	infinitive	Sweet South Wind not said here		gently property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	breathe in a quote	infinitive	Sweet South Wind not said here		mildly property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wind in a quote	present	the storm	sleep		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sleep=Theme

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

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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 47