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title: Thus, for three long summer days and three brief summer nights, the… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus, for three long summer days and three brief summer nights, the fire glowed and the furnace roared and the men toiled and watched unceasingly. Who acts: fire, furnace, men. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 67

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Thus, for three long summer days and three brief summer nights, the fire glowed and the furnace roared and the men toiled and watched unceasingly.

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**Who acts:** fire, furnace, men · **What happens:** glow, roar, toil, watch

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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 (fire, furnace, men), 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:pg66819:10:67
# text = Thus, for three long summer days and three brief summer nights, the fire glowed and the furnace roared and the men toiled and watched unceasingly.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
10	brief	brief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	glowed	glow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	furnace	furnace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	roared	roar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	toiled	toil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
27	unceasingly	unceasingly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | past | the fire |  |  |  | day | thus *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **roar** | past | the furnace |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **toil** | past | the men |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **watch** | past | the men *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unceasingly *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

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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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