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title: There, for three months—yes, for four long and dismal months—I was f… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: There, for three months—yes, for four long and dismal months—I was forced to tarry. Who acts: four long months. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 47

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There, for three months—yes, for four long and dismal months—I was forced to tarry.

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**Who acts:** four long months · **What happens:** force, tarry · **To what, where:** four long months

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four long months), 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:pg66819:7:47
# text = There, for three months—yes, for four long and dismal months—I was forced to tarry.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	14	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	dismal	dismal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	tarry	tarry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **force** | past · passive |  | four long months |  | there | month | I *nsubj:pass* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **tarry** | to-infinitive | four long months *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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