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title: Put in food and feed for seven days’ journey—yes, for eight days of… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Put in food and feed for seven days’ journey—yes, for eight days of wintry weather. Who acts: you, seven days. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 138

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Put in food and feed for seven days’ journey—yes, for eight days of wintry weather.

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**Who acts:** you, seven days · **What happens:** put, feed, journey · **To what, where:** food

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, seven 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:pg66819:20:138
# text = Put in food and feed for seven days’ journey—yes, for eight days of wintry weather.
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	wintry	wintry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | food | day |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in food=Destination |
| 2 | **feed** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for seven days's journey | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **journey** |  | seven days |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «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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