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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 57

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For two, four—yes, six—long and dreary months he mourned, and his strength waned and he grew weak from sorrow.

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**Who acts:** long months, strength, Beauty · **What happens:** mourn, wane, grow

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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 (long months, strength, Beauty), 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:pg66819:31:57
# text = For two, four—yes, six—long and dreary months he mourned, and his strength waned and he grew weak from sorrow.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	—	—	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	dreary	dreary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	mourned	mourn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	waned	wane	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
24	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mourn** | past | long months |  |  |  |  | for two; Beauty *nsubj* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for two=Attribute |
| 2 | **wane** | past | Beauty's strength |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **grow** | past | Beauty |  |  |  |  | from sorrow; weak *property* | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from sorrow=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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