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title: For ages and ages—nobody knows how many—Iron lay hidden in bogs and… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: For ages and ages—nobody knows how many—Iron lay hidden in bogs and forests and lonely caverns. Who acts: nobody, Iron. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 31

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For ages and ages—nobody knows how many—Iron lay hidden in bogs and forests and lonely caverns.

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**Who acts:** nobody, Iron · **What happens:** know, lie, hide · **To what, where:** many, bogs

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobody, Iron), 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:pg66819:5:31
# text = For ages and ages—nobody knows how many—Iron lay hidden in bogs and forests and lonely caverns.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	_
7	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	bogs	bog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	caverns	cavern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | nobody | many |  |  | for ages and ages |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer many=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lie** | past | Iron |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hide** | participle | Iron *not said here* |  |  | bogs and forests and lonely caverns |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bog=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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