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title: For hours the hero labored without cessation; for hours he muttered… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: For hours the hero labored without cessation; for hours he muttered spells of enchantment, suffering nothing to break in upon his thoughts or distract from the mystic power of his words. Who acts: hero. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden, wi
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 97

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For hours the hero labored without cessation; for hours he muttered spells of enchantment, suffering nothing to break in upon his thoughts or distract from the mystic power of his words.

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**Who acts:** hero · **What happens:** labor, mutter, suffer, break in, distract, spell · **To what, where:** spells, thoughts, mystic power, enchantment

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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 (hero), 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:pg66819:31:97
# text = For hours the hero labored without cessation; for hours he muttered spells of enchantment, suffering nothing to break in upon his thoughts or distract from the mystic power of his words.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	labored	labor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	cessation	cessation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	muttered	mutter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	suffering	suffer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	obl	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	distract	distract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	mystic	mystic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **labor** | participle | the hero |  |  |  | hour | without cessation | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | past | hero | spells of enchantment |  |  | hour | nothing *conj* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Topic |
| 3 | **suffer** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **break in** | to-infinitive | hero *not said here* |  |  | hero's thoughts |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon thought=Location |
| 5 | **distract** | infinitive | hero *not said here* |  |  | the mystic power of hero's words |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **spell** |  |  | enchantment |  |  |  |  | nom spell «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **think** |  | hero |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **word** |  | hero |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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