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title: Nine days did the sea toss me—yes, ten days did the waves buffet me—… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Nine days did the sea toss me—yes, ten days did the waves buffet me—ere I was cast upon these shores.” Who acts: Nine days, ten days, waves. 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 every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 62

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Nine days did the sea toss me—yes, ten days did the waves buffet me—ere I was cast upon these shores.”

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**Who acts:** Nine days, ten days, waves · **What happens:** toss, do, buffet, cast · **To what, where:** me, I, shores

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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 (Nine days, ten days, waves), 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:pg66819:2:62
# text = Nine days did the sea toss me—yes, ten days did the waves buffet me—ere I was cast upon these shores.”
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	toss	toss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	buffet	buffet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **toss** | past · do-support | Nine days | me |  |  |  | the sea *nsubj* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | past | ten days |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **buffet** | present | the waves |  | me |  |  |  | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination |
| 4 | **cast** | past · passive |  | I |  | this shores |  | ere *property* | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme upon shore=Destination |

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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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