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title: Hour after hour the two heroes sat together and talked of their grea… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Hour after hour the two heroes sat together and talked of their great project and the desire of their hearts. Who acts: Hour, heroes. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 1

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Hour after hour the two heroes sat together and talked of their great project and the desire of their hearts.

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**Who acts:** Hour, heroes · **What happens:** sit, talk, project, desire · **To what, where:** hearts

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hour, heroes), 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:pg66819:33:1
# text = Hour after hour the two heroes sat together and talked of their great project and the desire of their hearts.
1	Hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	project	project	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Hour after hour |  |  |  |  | the two heroes *nsubj*; together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **talk** | past | Hour after hour *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of heroes's great project and the desire of heroes's hearts | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **project** |  | heroes *= hero* |  |  |  |  |  | nom project «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **desire** |  |  | heroes's hearts |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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