--- title: For three anxious days and three sleepless nights the winds toiled a… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: For three anxious days and three sleepless nights the winds toiled and paused not; and Ilmarinen sang magic incantations, and heaped fresh fuel upon the fire, and cheered his helpers with shouts and cries and words of enchantment which wizards alone can speak. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (winds, Ilmarinen, helpers, wizards), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66819:11:29 # text = For three anxious days and three sleepless nights the winds toiled and paused not; and Ilmarinen sang magic incantations, and heaped fresh fuel upon the fire, and cheered his helpers with shouts and cries and words of enchantment which wizards alone can speak. 1 For for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 anxious anxious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 7 sleepless sleepless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 nights night NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 winds wind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 toiled toil VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 paused pause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 Ilmarinen Ilmarinen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 19 magic magic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 incantations incantation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 heaped heap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 24 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 fuel fuel NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 upon upon ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 cheered cheer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 helpers helper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 shouts shout VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 cries cry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 enchantment enchantment NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 42 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 43 det _ _ 43 wizards wizard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nsubj _ _ 44 alone alone ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 45 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **toil** | past | the winds | | | | day | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **pause** | past | the winds *not said here* | | | | | | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Ilmarinen | magic incantations | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location incantation=Theme | | 4 | **heap** | past | the winds *not said here* | fresh fuel | | the fire | | | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme upon fire=Destination | | 5 | **cheer** | past | the winds *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Ilmarinen's helpers | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | Ilmarinen's helpers *not said here* | words of enchantment | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 8 | **speak** *speech: other* | can | which wizards | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **word** | | | enchantment | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/11/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/11/30/) - ↑ back to [The Forging of the Sampo](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/11/)