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title: For six days—yes, for seven painful days he toiled through thickets… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: For six days—yes, for seven painful days he toiled through thickets of thorns; for seven eventful days he cut his way through a magic wilderness of hazel; for seven other days he groped through dark hedges of juniper and tangled masses of wild briars; and then, for three times seven days he wandered
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 17

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For six days—yes, for seven painful days he toiled through thickets of thorns; for seven eventful days he cut his way through a magic wilderness of hazel; for seven other days he groped through dark hedges of juniper and tangled masses of wild briars; and then, for three times seven days he wandered through desert lands and wide wastes of snow where there was no shelter from the storm and no place to rest his weary feet.

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**Who acts:** seven painful days, E · **What happens:** toil, cut, grope, tangle, wander, be · **To what, where:** thickets, way, magic wilderness, dark hedges, masses, seven days

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seven painful days, E), 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:pg66819:14:17
# text = For six days—yes, for seven painful days he toiled through thickets of thorns; for seven eventful days he cut his way through a magic wilderness of hazel; for seven other days he groped through dark hedges of juniper and tangled masses of wild briars; and then, for three times seven days he wandered through desert lands and wide wastes of snow where there was no shelter from the storm and no place to rest his weary feet.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	painful	painful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	toiled	toil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	thickets	thicket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	eventful	eventful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	through	through	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	hazel	hazel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
35	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	groped	grope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
39	through	through	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	hedges	hedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	juniper	juniper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	tangled	tangle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
46	masses	mass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	briars	briar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	56	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
52	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	56	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
54	for	for	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	56	nummod	_	_
56	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
57	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	58	nummod	_	_
58	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	appos	_	_
59	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
60	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	acl:relcl	_	_
61	through	through	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	compound	_	_
63	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	obl	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
65	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
66	wastes	waste	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	conj	_	_
67	of	of	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
68	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	76	obl	_	_
69	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	71	advmod	_	_
70	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	71	expl	_	_
71	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	76	cop	_	_
72	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	73	det	_	_
73	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	71	nsubj	_	_
74	from	from	ADP	IN	_	76	case	_	_
75	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	76	det	_	_
76	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	nmod	_	_
77	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	79	cc	_	_
78	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	79	det	_	_
79	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	76	conj	_	_
80	to	to	PART	TO	_	81	mark	_	_
81	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	79	acl	_	_
82	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	84	nmod:poss	_	_
83	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	84	amod	_	_
84	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	81	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
85	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **toil** | past | seven painful days |  |  | thickets of thorns | day; time | E *nsubj* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through thicket=Trajectory |
| 2 | **cut** | past | E | E's way |  | a magic wilderness of hazel | day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Product |
| 3 | **grope** | past | E |  |  | dark hedges of juniper | day |  | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through hedge=Location |
| 4 | **tangle** | past | E *not said here* | masses of wild briars |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **wander** | past | E | seven days *not said here* |  | desert lands and wide wastes |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme day=Trajectory |
| 6 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the storm and no place |  | of snow; no place *conj* | tree rules |
| 7 | **rest** | to-infinitive |  | E's weary feet |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location foot=Theme |

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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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