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title: For five days—yes, for six toilsome days—they had sailed hither and… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: For five days—yes, for six toilsome days—they had sailed hither and thither, casting first on the landward side and then on the seaward, and still the boat’s hold was far from being filled. Who acts: fishermen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Ma
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 5

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For five days—yes, for six toilsome days—they had sailed hither and thither, casting first on the landward side and then on the seaward, and still the boat’s hold was far from being filled.

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**Who acts:** fishermen · **What happens:** sail, cast, fill, hold · **To what, where:** six toilsome days, landward side, hold, boat

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fishermen), 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:pg66819:31:5
# text = For five days—yes, for six toilsome days—they had sailed hither and thither, casting first on the landward side and then on the seaward, and still the boat’s hold was far from being filled.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	toilsome	toilsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	sailed	sail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	casting	cast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
20	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	advmod	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	landward	landward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	seaward	seaward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
32	still	still	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’s	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
38	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	41	advmod	_	_
39	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | past · perfect | fishermen *= fisherman* | six toilsome days for five days *not said here* |  | thither |  | hither *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme day=Trajectory |
| 2 | **cast** | gerund | fishermen *= fisherman* *not said here* |  |  | the landward side and the seaward |  | first *property* | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on side=Destination |
| 3 | **fill** | past · passive | fishermen *= fisherman* *not said here* | the boat's hold |  |  |  | far *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» |
| 5 | **hold** |  |  | the boat |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: poss=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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