--- title: Day after day, week after week, he sat by Dame Lokka’s fireside, thi… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: Day after day, week after week, he sat by Dame Lokka’s fireside, thinking, thinking, thinking—yet keeping all his thoughts to himself. Who acts: Day, maiden. 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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 (Day, maiden), 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:pg66819:13:28 # text = Day after day, week after week, he sat by Dame Lokka’s fireside, thinking, thinking, thinking—yet keeping all his thoughts to himself. 1 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 2 after after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 6 after after ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 Dame Dame PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 13 Lokka Lokka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ’s 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 15 fireside fireside NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 — - PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 25 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 27 det:predet _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past | Day after day week after week | | | | | by Dame's fireside; maiden *nsubj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fireside=Location | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Day after day week after week *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Day after day week after week *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Day after day week after week *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **keep** | gerund | Day after day week after week *not said here* | maiden's thoughts | maiden | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Theme | | 6 | **think** | | maiden | | | | | | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/13/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/13/29/) - ↑ back to [The Unfinished Boat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/13/)