--- title: So, for nine days—yes, for ten days of terror—he went stalking hithe… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: So, for nine days—yes, for ten days of terror—he went stalking hither and thither through the woodlands and the meadows and the boggy thickets, shooting every timid creature that his eyes could see. Who acts: nine days, eyes. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/13/139/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old No…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/) / [The Unfinished Boat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/13/) / 139 # The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 139 So, for nine days—yes, for ten days of terror—he went stalking hither and thither through the woodlands and the meadows and the boggy thickets, shooting every timid creature that his eyes could see. **Who acts:** nine days, eyes · **What happens:** go, stalk, shoot, see · **To what, where:** woodlands, timid creature 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 (nine days, eyes), 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:pg66819:13:139 # text = So, for nine days—yes, for ten days of terror—he went stalking hither and thither through the woodlands and the meadows and the boggy thickets, shooting every timid creature that his eyes could see. 1 So so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 — - PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 11 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 terror terror NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 — - PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 stalking stalk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 xcomp _ _ 18 hither hither ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 thither thither ADV RB _ 18 conj _ _ 21 through through ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 woodlands woodland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 meadows meadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 boggy boggy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 thickets thicket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 shooting shoot VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 33 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 35 det _ _ 34 timid timid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 obj _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 39 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | nine days and ten days of terror | | | | | task *nsubj* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **stalk** | gerund | nine days and ten days of terror *not said here* | | | the woodlands and the meadows and the boggy thickets; thither | | hither *property* | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent through woodland=Location | | 3 | **shoot** | gerund | nine days and ten days of terror *not said here* | every timid creature | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Theme | | 4 | **see** | could | task's eyes | every timid creature | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | 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 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/13/138/) - next →: [sentence 140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/13/140/) - ↑ back to [The Unfinished Boat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/13/)