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title: Your sweet songs will enliven the hours of evening, and we will conv… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Your sweet songs will enliven the hours of evening, and we will converse often together concerning those things that are nearest to your heart and mine. Who acts: sweet songs, we, things, Your. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat, with its 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 8

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Your sweet songs will enliven the hours of evening, and we will converse often together concerning those things that are nearest to your heart and mine.

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**Who acts:** sweet songs, we, things, Your · **What happens:** enliven, converse, concern, be, sing

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sweet songs, we, things, Your), 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:pg66819:13:8
# text = Your sweet songs will enliven the hours of evening, and we will converse often together concerning those things that are nearest to your heart and mine.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	enliven	enliven	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	converse	converse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	together	together	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	case	_	_
18	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	mine	mine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	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 | **enliven** | future | Your sweet songs |  |  |  | hour |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **converse** *speech: other* | future | we |  |  |  |  | concern that things; together *property* | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **concern** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | present | that things |  |  |  |  | to your heart and mine; near *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sing** |  | Your |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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