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title: When we hear our own home doors creaking behind us, then will be the… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: When we hear our own home doors creaking behind us, then will be the time to sing and rejoice. Who acts: we, own home doors. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 77

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When we hear our own home doors creaking behind us, then will be the time to sing and rejoice.

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**Who acts:** we, own home doors · **What happens:** hear, creak, be, sing, rejoice · **To what, where:** own home doors, time

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, own home doors), 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:pg66819:36:77
# text = When we hear our own home doors creaking behind us, then will be the time to sing and rejoice.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
4	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	creaking	creak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | we | our own home doors |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus |
| 2 | **creak** | gerund | our own home doors *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind us | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind we=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | future |  | the time |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **rejoice** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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