The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 90

“Not one of you can draw cheerful music from it, and yet the melodies are there; they lie hidden in the strings of horsehair, in the jawbone of the pike.”

Who acts: one, melodies · What happens: draw, be, lie, hide · To what, where: cheerful music, instrument, jawbone, strings

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 (one, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 draw	punct
2	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 one	advmod
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 draw	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 one	nmod
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 draw	aux
7	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 music	amod
9	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 draw	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 draw	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 there	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 there	cc
14	yet	yet	ADV	_	16 melodies	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 melodies	det
16	melodies	melody	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 there	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 there	cop
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 draw	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 lie	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lie	nsubj
21	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 draw	conj
22	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 lie	xcomp
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 strings	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 strings	det
25	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hidden	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 horsehair	case
27	horsehair	horsehair	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 strings	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 jawbone	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 jawbone	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 jawbone	det
31	jawbone	jawbone	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lie	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 pike	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 pike	det
34	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 jawbone	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 draw	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 draw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw in a quote	can	one of you	cheerful music	instrument		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent music=Theme from it=Initial_Location
2	is in a quote	present	the melodies			there property	tree rules
3	lie in a quote	present	melodies = melody		the jawbone of the pike		tree rules
4	hide in a quote	participle	melodies = melody not said here		the strings of horsehair		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in string=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 Kantele, sentence 90