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title: For twelve months—yes, for two long, sorrowing years—I sought her in… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: For twelve months—yes, for two long, sorrowing years—I sought her in that land. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 34

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For twelve months—yes, for two long, sorrowing years—I sought her in that land.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** sorrow, seek · **To what, where:** Maid, land

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg66819:32:34
# text = For twelve months—yes, for two long, sorrowing years—I sought her in that land.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	sorrowing	sorrow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sorrow** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **seek** | past | I | Maid |  | that land | month |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in land=Location |

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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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