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title: And he, forgetful of his home and kinsmen, sat content in the glow o… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And he, forgetful of his home and kinsmen, sat content in the glow of the blazing fire logs, and counted the days till the storm should pass, the weeks till the winter should end. Who acts: Ilmarinen, storm, winter, blazing fire logs. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by Jame
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 71

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And he, forgetful of his home and kinsmen, sat content in the glow of the blazing fire logs, and counted the days till the storm should pass, the weeks till the winter should end.

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen, storm, winter, blazing fire logs · **What happens:** sit, blaze, count, pass, end, glow · **To what, where:** content, glow

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Recipe. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilmarinen, storm, winter, blazing fire logs), 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:pg66819:9:71
# text = And he, forgetful of his home and kinsmen, sat content in the glow of the blazing fire logs, and counted the days till the storm should pass, the weeks till the winter should end.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	forgetful	forgetful	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	kinsmen	kinsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	blazing	blaze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
19	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	logs	log	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	counted	count	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Ilmarinen | content |  | the glow of the blazing fire logs |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent content=Theme in glow=Location |
| 2 | **blaze** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **count** | past | Ilmarinen *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **pass** | should | the storm |  |  |  | week |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **end** | should | the winter |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **glow** |  | the blazing fire logs |  |  |  |  |  | nom glow «state intransitive»: of=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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