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title: Again it was heard, and again and again, each time more distinct, mo… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Again it was heard, and again and again, each time more distinct, more persistent, less musical. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 7

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Again it was heard, and again and again, each time more distinct, more persistent, less musical.

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**What happens:** hear · **To what, where:** sound

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66819:30:7
# text = Again it was heard, and again and again, each time more distinct, more persistent, less musical.
1	Again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	distinct	distinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	persistent	persistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	musical	musical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · passive |  | sound |  |  | again; again; again |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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