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title: For five summer days he sat there—yes, for six long days he tarried… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: For five summer days he sat there—yes, for six long days he tarried by the shore not knowing what to do. Who acts: plan. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 125

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For five summer days he sat there—yes, for six long days he tarried by the shore not knowing what to do.

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**Who acts:** plan · **What happens:** sit, tarry, not know, do

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plan), 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:pg66819:13:125
# text = For five summer days he sat there—yes, for six long days he tarried by the shore not knowing what to do.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	tarried	tarry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | plan |  |  | there | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tarry** | past | plan |  |  |  | day | by the shore | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by shore=Location |
| 3 | **not** **know** | gerund | plan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | plan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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