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title: Blessed be the bridal pair, and may their lives be long and their lo… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Blessed be the bridal pair, and may their lives be long and their love lasting!” Who acts: you, lives, love. 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 49

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Blessed be the bridal pair, and may their lives be long and their love lasting!”

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**Who acts:** you, lives, love · **What happens:** be, last, love · **To what, where:** Blessed bridal pair

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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 (you, lives, love), 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:pg66819:28:49
# text = Blessed be the bridal pair, and may their lives be long and their love lasting!”
1	Blessed	blessed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
16	lasting	last	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | imperative | you *not said here* | the Blessed bridal pair and lives's love |  |  |  | lives's love *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | may | Hail's lives |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **last** | gerund | lives's love *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **love** |  | lives *= life* |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling 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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