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title: Each gazed into the other’s eyes, and for a time not another word wa… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Each gazed into the other’s eyes, and for a time not another word was spoken—the hearts of both were so full of joy. Who acts: hearts. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 30

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Each gazed into the other’s eyes, and for a time not another word was spoken—the hearts of both were so full of joy.

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**Who acts:** hearts · **What happens:** gaze, speak, be · **To what, where:** Each, eyes, word · **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 Smithy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hearts), 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:pg66819:7:30
# text = Each gazed into the other’s eyes, and for a time not another word was spoken—the hearts of both were so full of joy.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nmod	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gaze** | participle · passive |  | Each |  | the other's eyes |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | another word |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the hearts of both |  |  |  |  | of joy; full *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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