The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 149

But still the storm raged; the waves dashed furiously against the vessel; the winds howled and fought and gave no heed to Wainamoinen’s prayer; the fog still hung darkly upon the waters or drifted in mist-like clouds before the wind; the eagle of Ahti screamed in vain.

Who acts: storm, waves, winds, fog, eagle, Wainamoinen · What happens: rage, dash, howl, fight, give, hang · To what, where: vessel, heed, prayer, waters, like clouds, vain

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storm, waves, winds, fog), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 raged	cc
2	still	still	ADV	_	5 raged	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 storm	det
4	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 raged	nsubj
5	raged	rage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 dashed	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 waves	det
8	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dashed	nsubj
9	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 raged	conj
10	furiously	furiously	ADV	_	9 dashed	advmod
11	against	against	ADP	_	13 vessel	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 vessel	det
13	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dashed	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 howled	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 winds	det
16	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 howled	nsubj
17	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 raged	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fought	cc
19	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 howled	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gave	cc
21	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 howled	conj
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 heed	det
23	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gave	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 prayer	case
25	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 prayer	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 Wainamoinen	case
27	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gave	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 hung	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 fog	det
30	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hung	nsubj
31	still	still	ADV	_	32 hung	advmod
32	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 raged	parataxis
33	darkly	darkly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hung	xcomp
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 waters	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 waters	det
36	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 hung	obl
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 drifted	cc
38	drifted	drift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 hung	conj
39	in	in	ADP	_	43 clouds	case
40	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 like	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 mist	punct
42	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 clouds	amod
43	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 drifted	obl
44	before	before	ADP	_	46 wind	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 wind	det
46	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 clouds	nmod
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 screamed	punct
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 eagle	det
49	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 screamed	nsubj
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 Ahti	case
51	Ahti	Ahti	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 eagle	nmod
52	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 raged	parataxis
53	in	in	ADP	_	54 vain	case
54	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 screamed	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 raged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rage	participle	the storm				still		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dash	past	the waves			the vessel		furiously property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against vessel=Trajectory
3	howl	past	the winds						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fight	past	the winds not said here						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	give	past	the winds not said here	no heed	Wainamoinen's prayer				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent heed=Theme to prayer=Recipient
6	hang	past	the fog			the waters	still	darkly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon water=Location
7	drift	participle	the fog not said here			like clouds before the wind			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cloud=Trajectory
8	scream speech: express	past	the eagle of Ahti			vain			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in vain=Location
9	pray		Wainamoinen						nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Flight, sentence 149