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title: For three long and painful days he toiled among bogs and fens and ac… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: For three long and painful days he toiled among bogs and fens and across the lonely, never-ending meadows. Who acts: Ilmarinen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 125

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For three long and painful days he toiled among bogs and fens and across the lonely, never-ending meadows.

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen · **What happens:** toil, not end · **To what, where:** bogs

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilmarinen), 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:pg66819:24:125
# text = For three long and painful days he toiled among bogs and fens and across the lonely, never-ending meadows.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	painful	painful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	toiled	toil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	among	among	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bogs	bog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	fens	fen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	across	across	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
16	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	ending	end	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **toil** | past | Ilmarinen |  |  | bogs and fens and the lonely ending meadows | day |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among bog=Trajectory |
| 2 | **not** **end** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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