Sentence:  In small-town people are very friendly dominant stress will generally be on the complement very friendly ; in the double sentence the smaller the town , the friendlier the people it will generally be on the <WSD>subjects</WSD> the town and the people . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated