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title: They led the noble pair into the house, the men and women singing jo… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: They led the noble pair into the house, the men and women singing joyously, the children dancing before them. Who acts: people, women, children. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Home Coming, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Home Coming, sentence 40

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They led the noble pair into the house, the men and women singing joyously, the children dancing before them.

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**Who acts:** people, women, children · **What happens:** lead, sing, dance · **To what, where:** noble pair, house

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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 (people, women, children), 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:pg66819:28:40
# text = They led the noble pair into the house, the men and women singing joyously, the children dancing before them.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	led	lead	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	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	joyously	joyously	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
19	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | people | the noble pair |  | the house |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pair=Theme into house=Destination |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | women *not said here* |  |  |  |  | joyously *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dance** | gerund | the children *not said here* |  |  |  | before people |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before they=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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