The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 112

And all this while the music never ceased, the kantele kept pouring out its sweetest, rarest treasures, while Wainamoinen sang new songs to charm the listening multitude.

Who acts: music, kantele, Wainamoinen · What happens: not cease, keep, pour out, sing, listen, treasure · To what, where: sweetest rarest treasures, new songs

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (music, kantele, Wainamoinen), 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	_	8 ceased	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 ceased	advmod
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 all	obj
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 ceased	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 music	det
6	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ceased	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 ceased	advmod
8	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kept	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 kantele	det
11	kantele	kantele	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kept	nsubj
12	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ceased	conj
13	pouring	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 kept	xcomp
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 pouring	compound:prt
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 treasures	nmod:poss
16	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 treasures	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 treasures	punct
18	rarest	rare	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 treasures	amod
19	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pouring	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sang	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 sang	mark
22	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 sang	nsubj
23	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ceased	conj
24	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 songs	amod
25	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sang	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 charm	mark
27	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sang	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 multitude	det
29	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 multitude	amod
30	multitude	multitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sang	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 ceased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not cease	past	the music			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	keep	past	the kantele			tree rules
3	pour out	gerund	the kantele not said here	kantele's sweetest rarest treasures		vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Patient
4	sing speech: express	past	Wainamoinen	new songs	charm xcomp; the listening multitude obj	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent song=Beneficiary multitude=Theme
5	listen	gerund				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	treasure		kantele			nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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 Triumph of Music, sentence 112

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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 112