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title: She heard the joyful sounds of the morning; she heard the cold waves… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: She heard the joyful sounds of the morning; she heard the cold waves lapping and splashing upon the shore. Who acts: maiden, cold waves. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 27

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She heard the joyful sounds of the morning; she heard the cold waves lapping and splashing upon the shore.

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**Who acts:** maiden, cold waves · **What happens:** hear, lap, splash · **To what, where:** joyful sounds, cold waves, shore

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, cold waves), 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:pg66819:2:27
# text = She heard the joyful sounds of the morning; she heard the cold waves lapping and splashing upon the shore.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	joyful	joyful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	lapping	lap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	splashing	splash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	conj	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | maiden | the joyful sounds of the morning |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hear** | past | maiden | the cold waves |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wave=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lap** | gerund | the cold waves *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **splash** | gerund | the cold waves *not said here* |  |  | the shore |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon shore=Location |

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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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