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title: For three long days—yes, for four summer days—she tended him as thou… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: For three long days—yes, for four summer days—she tended him as though he were her son, and no questions did she ask. Who acts: face, cock, questions. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 56

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For three long days—yes, for four summer days—she tended him as though he were her son, and no questions did she ask.

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**Who acts:** face, cock, questions · **What happens:** tend, be, ask · **To what, where:** cock, son

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, cock, questions), 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:pg66819:2:56
# text = For three long days—yes, for four summer days—she tended him as though he were her son, and no questions did she ask.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	tended	tend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
26	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tend** | past | face | cock |  |  | day |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | cock | face's son |  |  |  | face *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · do-support | no questions |  |  |  |  | face *nsubj* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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