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title: From morning till evening, from evening till another morning, they w… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: From morning till evening, from evening till another morning, they worked with right good will, as their master directed them. Who acts: winds, master. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the Sampo, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 24

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From morning till evening, from evening till another morning, they worked with right good will, as their master directed them.

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**Who acts:** winds, master · **What happens:** work, direct · **To what, where:** winds

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (winds, master), 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:pg66819:11:24
# text = From morning till evening, from evening till another morning, they worked with right good will, as their master directed them.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
3	till	till	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	till	till	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	right	right	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	directed	direct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | past | winds *= wind* |  |  |  | morning |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **direct** | past | winds's master | winds *= wind* |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |

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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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