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title: “Will he ever come?” she murmured, half aloud though speaking to her… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Will he ever come?” she murmured, half aloud though speaking to herself; and her mother, Dame Louhi, from her couch echoed her words, “Will he ever come?” Who acts: Beauty, Wainamoinen, mother. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, wit
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 9

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“Will he ever come?” she murmured, half aloud though speaking to herself; and her mother, Dame Louhi, from her couch echoed her words, “Will he ever come?”

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**Who acts:** Beauty, Wainamoinen, mother · **What happens:** come, murmur, speak, echo, word · **To what, where:** Wainamoinen, words · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beauty, Wainamoinen, mother), 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:pg66819:26:9
# text = “Will he ever come?” she murmured, half aloud though speaking to herself; and her mother, Dame Louhi, from her couch echoed her words, “Will he ever come?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	murmured	murmur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	12	advmod	_	_
12	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	Louhi	Louhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	couch	couch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	echoed	echo	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	36	advmod	_	_
36	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | future | Beauty |  |  |  | ever |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **murmur** *speech: other* | past | Wainamoinen |  |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | Wainamoinen *not said here* |  | Wainamoinen |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to herself=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **echo** | past | Wainamoinen's mother | Wainamoinen's words |  |  |  | Wainamoinen's couch *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | future | Beauty |  |  |  | ever |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **word** |  | Wainamoinen |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: 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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