The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 139

He sang a wild, strange song of enchantment—a song he had learned from a witch woman in the land of mists and shadows.

Who acts: boy, enchantment · What happens: sing, learn · To what, where: wild strange song, song

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, enchantment), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 song	det
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 song	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wild	punct
6	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 song	amod
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sang	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 enchantment	case
9	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 song	nmod
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 learned	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 song	det
12	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 learned	nsubj:pass
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 learned	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 learned	aux
15	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sang	conj
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 woman	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 woman	det
18	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 woman	compound
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 learned	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 land	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 land	det
22	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 woman	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 mists	case
24	mists	mist	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 land	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 shadows	cc
26	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 mists	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	boy	a wild strange song of enchantment		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
2	learn	past · perfect · passive		a song	from a witch woman in the land of mists and shadows; boy nsubj	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Topic from woman=Source
3	sing		enchantment			nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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 Slave Boy, sentence 139

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 139