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title: The summer passed swiftly, but to Wainamoinen the days were full of… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The summer passed swiftly, but to Wainamoinen the days were full of loneliness. Who acts: summer, days. 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 95

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The summer passed swiftly, but to Wainamoinen the days were full of loneliness.

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**Who acts:** summer, days · **What happens:** pass, be · **To what, where:** Wainamoinen

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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 (summer, days), 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:pg66819:2:95
# text = The summer passed swiftly, but to Wainamoinen the days were full of loneliness.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | the summer |  |  |  |  | swiftly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the days |  | Wainamoinen |  |  | of loneliness; full *property* | tree rules |

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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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