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title: Now our eyes see that which our hearts could not believe and we woul… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Now our eyes see that which our hearts could not believe and we would fain rejoice with you and be glad because of your good fortune.” Who acts: eyes, hearts, we. 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 pragma
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 42

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Now our eyes see that which our hearts could not believe and we would fain rejoice with you and be glad because of your good fortune.”

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**Who acts:** eyes, hearts, we · **What happens:** see, not believe, fain, rejoice, be · **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 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 (eyes, hearts, we), 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:pg66819:35:42
# text = Now our eyes see that which our hearts could not believe and we would fain rejoice with you and be glad because of your good fortune.”
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
7	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	fain	fain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
16	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
22	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	26	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | our eyes |  |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **believe** | could | our hearts |  |  |  |  | which *obj* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fain** | would | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **rejoice** | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with you | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | because your good fortune; glad *property* | tree rules |

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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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