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title: Very impatiently the hero waited through the short hours of night, a… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Very impatiently the hero waited through the short hours of night, and gladly did he hail the first gray streak of dawn that heralded the morning. Who acts: hero, heart, first gray streak. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero, with its depende
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 89

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Very impatiently the hero waited through the short hours of night, and gladly did he hail the first gray streak of dawn that heralded the morning.

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**Who acts:** hero, heart, first gray streak · **What happens:** wait, hail, herald · **To what, where:** first gray streak

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero, heart, first gray streak), 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:pg66819:12:89
# text = Very impatiently the hero waited through the short hours of night, and gladly did he hail the first gray streak of dawn that heralded the morning.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	impatiently	impatiently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	hail	hail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
20	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	streak	streak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	heralded	herald	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | the hero |  |  |  | hour | impatiently *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hail** | past · do-support | heart | the first gray streak of dawn |  |  |  | gladly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent streak=Theme |
| 3 | **herald** | past | the first gray streak of dawn |  |  |  | morning |  | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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