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title: Yes, for two days and two long, silent nights he sat in the sledge a… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Yes, for two days and two long, silent nights he sat in the sledge and drove onward with no slackening of speed—so impatient was he to reach his dear home land, to behold his own fireside. Who acts: Minstrel, two days. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The T
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 21

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Yes, for two days and two long, silent nights he sat in the sledge and drove onward with no slackening of speed—so impatient was he to reach his dear home land, to behold his own fireside.

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**Who acts:** Minstrel, two days · **What happens:** sit, drive, be, behold, slacken · **To what, where:** two long silent nights, sledge, own fireside, speed

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tree of Magic. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel, two days), 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:pg66819:6:21
# text = Yes, for two days and two long, silent nights he sat in the sledge and drove onward with no slackening of speed—so impatient was he to reach his dear home land, to behold his own fireside.
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sledge	sledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	slackening	slackening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	impatient	impatient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	obj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
33	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	fireside	fireside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Minstrel | two long silent nights *not said here* |  | the sledge |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent night=Theme in sledge=Location |
| 2 | **drive** | past | Minstrel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with no slackening of speed; onward *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | two days and two long silent nights |  |  |  |  | Minstrel *nsubj*; Minstrel's dear home land *obj*; reach *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **behold** | to-infinitive | two days and two long silent nights *not said here* | Minstrel's own fireside |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fireside=Stimulus |
| 5 | **slacken** |  |  | speed |  |  |  |  | nom slackening «event transitive»: of=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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