The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 78
It will delight the young, the old, the rich, the poor—all sorts of people—with its rare and matchless melodies.
Who acts: music · What happens: delight, sort · To what, where: young, people
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (music), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 delight | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 delight | aux |
| 3 | delight | delight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 young | det |
| 5 | young | young | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 delight | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 old | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 old | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 young | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rich | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rich | det |
| 11 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 old | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 poor | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 poor | det |
| 14 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 old | conj |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 sorts | punct |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 sorts | det |
| 17 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 delight | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 people | case |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sorts | nmod |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 melodies | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 melodies | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 melodies | nmod:poss |
| 23 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 melodies | amod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 matchless | cc |
| 25 | matchless | matchless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rare | conj |
| 26 | melodies | melody | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 delight | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 delight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | delight | future | music | the young | with music's rare melodies; all sorts of people obl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus young=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | sort | people | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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