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title: And who were the two heroes who led them—one white-bearded and tall,… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And who were the two heroes who led them—one white-bearded and tall, the other sad-eyed and pale but with the limbs of a giant? Who acts: two heroes. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 34

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And who were the two heroes who led them—one white-bearded and tall, the other sad-eyed and pale but with the limbs of a giant?

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**Who acts:** two heroes · **What happens:** be, lead · **To what, where:** two heroes, heroes

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two 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:pg66819:35:34
# text = And who were the two heroes who led them—one white-bearded and tall, the other sad-eyed and pale but with the limbs of a giant?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
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	14	nsubj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nsubj	_	_
12	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	bearded	bearded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nsubj	_	_
20	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the two heroes |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lead** | past | the two heroes | heroes *= hero* |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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