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title: “Summer and fair days of sunshine are the wizard’s time for action.” — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Summer and fair days of sunshine are the wizard’s time for action.” Who acts: Summer. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 3

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“Summer and fair days of sunshine are the wizard’s time for action.”

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**Who acts:** Summer · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** time

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Summer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:10:3
# text = “Summer and fair days of sunshine are the wizard’s time for action.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Summer and fair days of sunshine | the wizard's time |  |  |  | for action; the wizard *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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