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title: Long were the speeches, lengthy were the songs, and many were the st… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Long were the speeches, lengthy were the songs, and many were the stories to which the people listened and the patient bride and bridegroom hearkened. Who acts: speeches, people, patient bride. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Home Coming, with its depe
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Home Coming, sentence 1

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Long were the speeches, lengthy were the songs, and many were the stories to which the people listened and the patient bride and bridegroom hearkened.

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**Who acts:** speeches, people, patient bride · **What happens:** be, listen, hearken · **To what, where:** lengthy songs, many stories

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Home Coming. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (speeches, people, patient bride), 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:pg66819:28:1
# text = Long were the speeches, lengthy were the songs, and many were the stories to which the people listened and the patient bride and bridegroom hearkened.
1	Long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	speeches	speech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	lengthy	lengthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	patient	patient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	hearkened	hearken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the speeches |  |  |  |  | lengthy, long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the lengthy songs and the many stories |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | the many stories |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **listen** | past | the people |  |  |  |  | to the many stories | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to which=Theme |
| 5 | **hearken** | past | the patient bride and bridegroom |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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