The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 97

Never before had such music been heard, never since has any song been sung that equalled it, and never so long as the world endures shall man again listen to words so sweet or to harmonies so divine.

Who acts: that, world, man · What happens: have, hear, not have, sing, equall, endure · To what, where: such music, song, music · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (that, world, man), 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 before	advmod
2	before	before	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 heard	parataxis
4	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 music	amod
5	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	nsubj:pass
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 heard	aux:pass
7	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 has	punct
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 has	advmod
10	since	since	SCONJ	_	11 has	mark
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	conj
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 song	det
13	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sung	nsubj:pass
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 sung	aux:pass
15	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 has	xcomp
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 equalled	nsubj
17	equalled	equall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sung	ccomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 equalled	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 long	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 long	cc
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 long	advmod
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 long	advmod
23	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 listen	obl
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 endures	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 world	det
26	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 endures	nsubj
27	endures	endure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 long	advcl
28	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 listen	aux
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 listen	nsubj
30	again	again	ADV	_	29 man	advmod
31	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 equalled	parataxis
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 words	case
33	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 listen	obl
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 sweet	advmod
35	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 listen	advcl
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 harmonies	cc
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 harmonies	case
38	harmonies	harmony	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 sweet	conj
39	so	so	SCONJ	_	40 divine	case
40	divine	divine	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 listen	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	participle			never	before property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hear	participle · passive		such music			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	not have	present					tree rules
4	sing speech: express	participle · passive		any song			tree rules
5	equall	past	that	music			tree rules
6	endure	present	the world				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	listen	shall	man			to words; so divine	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme

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 97

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 97