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title: For two whole days—yes, for three long summer days—his singing conti… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: For two whole days—yes, for three long summer days—his singing continued. Who acts: singing, Keeper. 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 of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 95

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For two whole days—yes, for three long summer days—his singing continued.

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**Who acts:** singing, Keeper · **What happens:** continue, sing

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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 (singing, Keeper), 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:pg66819:17:95
# text = For two whole days—yes, for three long summer days—his singing continued.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | Keeper's singing |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sing** |  | Keeper |  |  |  |  |  | nom singing «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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