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title: All day, from dawn till evening twilight, and all night, from darkne… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: All day, from dawn till evening twilight, and all night, from darkness till morning sunlight, the mighty Wipunen sang without ceasing. Who acts: mighty Wipunen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 94

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All day, from dawn till evening twilight, and all night, from darkness till morning sunlight, the mighty Wipunen sang without ceasing.

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**Who acts:** mighty Wipunen · **What happens:** sing, cease

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mighty Wipunen), 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:pg66819:17:94
# text = All day, from dawn till evening twilight, and all night, from darkness till morning sunlight, the mighty Wipunen sang without ceasing.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	till	till	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
16	till	till	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Wipunen	Wipunen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	ceasing	cease	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the mighty Wipunen |  |  |  | day |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **cease** | gerund | the mighty Wipunen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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