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title: Then he heard clearly the shouting of the young men and the singing… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he heard clearly the shouting of the young men and the singing of the maidens, and above all the clear, commanding tones of the master. Who acts: fisherman, young men. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 125

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Then he heard clearly the shouting of the young men and the singing of the maidens, and above all the clear, commanding tones of the master.

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**Who acts:** fisherman, young men · **What happens:** hear, command, shout, sing, intonate · **To what, where:** shouting, tones, maidens, master · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (fisherman, young men), 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:pg66819:33:125
# text = Then he heard clearly the shouting of the young men and the singing of the maidens, and above all the clear, commanding tones of the master.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shouting	shouting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	above	above	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	commanding	command	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
25	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | fisherman | the shouting of the young men and the singing of the maidens |  |  | then | clearly *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer shouting=Stimulus |
| 2 | **command** | gerund | fisherman *not said here* | tones of the master |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent tone=Eventuality |
| 3 | **shout** |  | the young men and the singing of the maidens |  |  |  |  |  | nom shouting «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **sing** |  |  | the maidens |  |  |  |  | nom singing «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **intonate** |  |  | the master |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication 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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