The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 96

And such was the spell of his song that the moon stood still and listened, the stars danced in the northern sky, and the deep sea hushed its murmuring.

Who acts: moon, stars, deep sea, Keeper, sea · What happens: be, stand, listen, dance, hush, sing · To what, where: northern sky, murmuring

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, stars, deep sea, Keeper), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 such	cc
2	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	5 spell	case
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spell	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spell	det
5	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 danced	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 song	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 song	nmod:poss
8	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spell	nmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 stood	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 moon	det
11	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stood	nsubj
12	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spell	advcl
13	still	still	ADV	_	12 stood	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 listened	cc
15	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stood	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 spell	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stars	det
18	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 danced	nsubj
19	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 sky	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sky	det
22	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sky	amod
23	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 danced	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hushed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hushed	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sea	det
27	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 sea	amod
28	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hushed	nsubj
29	hushed	hush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 danced	conj
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 murmuring	nmod:poss
31	murmuring	murmuring	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hushed	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 danced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past					such the spell; of Keeper's song	tree rules
2	stand	past	the moon			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	listen	past	the moon not said here					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	dance	past	the stars		the northern sky			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location
5	hush	past	the deep sea	sea's murmuring				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent murmuring=Patient
6	sing		Keeper					nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
7	murmur		sea					nom murmuring «event transitive»: poss=agent

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.

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 96

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 96