The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 27

Thereupon he began to sing one of the strange, weird, wonderful songs that he had learned from the Wisdom Keeper; and as he sang, strange changes came over the magic vessel.

Who acts: Wind, strange changes · What happens: begin, sing, learn, come · To what, where: one, strange weird wonderful songs, Wisdom Keeper, magic vessel

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wind, strange changes), 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	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	3 began	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sing	mark
5	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sing	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	14 songs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 songs	det
9	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 songs	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 strange	punct
11	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 songs	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 weird	punct
13	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 songs	amod
14	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 learned	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 learned	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 learned	aux
18	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 songs	acl
19	from	from	ADP	_	22 Keeper	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Keeper	det
21	Wisdom	Wisdom	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Keeper	compound
22	Keeper	Keeper	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 learned	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 sang	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sang	cc
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 sang	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sang	nsubj
27	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 came	punct
29	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 changes	amod
30	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 came	nsubj
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 sang	conj
32	over	over	ADP	_	35 vessel	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 vessel	det
34	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 vessel	amod
35	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 came	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Wind			thereupon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	Wind not said here	one of the strange weird wonderful songs			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme
3	learn	past · perfect	Wind	the strange weird wonderful songs not said here	the Wisdom Keeper		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent song=Topic from keeper=Source
4	sing speech: express	past	Wind				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
5	come	past	strange changes		the magic vessel		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over vessel=Initial_Location

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 Launching, sentence 27

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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 27