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title: For nine days he sought—yes, for ten long summer days he wandered ov… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: For nine days he sought—yes, for ten long summer days he wandered over the brown meadows and among the gloomy hills of Pohyola. Who acts: Ilmarinen. 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 41

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For nine days he sought—yes, for ten long summer days he wandered over the brown meadows and among the gloomy hills of Pohyola.

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen · **What happens:** seek, wander · **To what, where:** brown meadows

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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 (Ilmarinen), 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:pg66819:10:41
# text = For nine days he sought—yes, for ten long summer days he wandered over the brown meadows and among the gloomy hills of Pohyola.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	among	among	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | past | Ilmarinen |  |  |  | day |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yes=Theme |
| 2 | **wander** | past | Ilmarinen |  |  | the brown meadows and the gloomy hills of Pohyola | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over meadow=Trajectory |

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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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