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title: All day, all night, the fires were glowing; all day, all night, the… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: All day, all night, the fires were glowing; all day, all night, the bakers, the brewers, the kitchen maids were running hither and thither, each busily working, each busily preparing his part of the wonderful feast. Who acts: fires, kitchen maids, each. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 31

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All day, all night, the fires were glowing; all day, all night, the bakers, the brewers, the kitchen maids were running hither and thither, each busily working, each busily preparing his part of the wonderful feast.

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**Who acts:** fires, kitchen maids, each · **What happens:** glow, run, work, prepare · **To what, where:** bakers, part

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fires, kitchen maids, each), 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:pg66819:27:31
# text = All day, all night, the fires were glowing; all day, all night, the bakers, the brewers, the kitchen maids were running hither and thither, each busily working, each busily preparing his part of the wonderful feast.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bakers	baker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	brewers	brewer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	maids	maid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
29	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	nsubj	_	_
34	busily	busily	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	nsubj	_	_
38	busily	busily	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	preparing	prepare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | past · progressive | the fires | the bakers and the brewers |  |  | day; night |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | past · progressive | the kitchen maids |  |  | thither |  | hither *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **work** | gerund | each |  |  |  |  | busily *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **prepare** | gerund | each | Pohyola's part of the wonderful feast |  |  |  | busily *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient |

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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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