The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 85
And Wainamoinen passed it from hand to hand, saying, “Look at it, let your fingers play upon it, let its melodies rejoice your hearts.”
Who acts: Wainamoinen, fingers, melodies · What happens: pass, say, look, let, play, rejoice · To what, where: music, hand, hearts · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Wainamoinen, fingers, melodies), 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 | _ | 3 passed | cc |
| 2 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 hand | case |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saying | punct |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 passed | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Look | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Look | punct |
| 13 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 saying | ccomp |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 Look | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 Look | conj |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 play | nsubj |
| 20 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 let | ccomp |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 play | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 let | punct |
| 24 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 Look | parataxis |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 melodies | nmod:poss |
| 26 | melodies | melody | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 rejoice | nsubj |
| 27 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 let | parataxis |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 rejoice | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Look | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Wainamoinen | music | hand | to hand | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme from hand=Initial_Location to hand=Destination | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Wainamoinen not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look in a quote | infinitive | at music | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | |||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | play in a quote | present | your fingers | upon music | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | let in a quote | infinitive | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | rejoice in a quote | present | music's melodies | your hearts | tree rules |
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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