The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 120
Softly, more softly, the strains of music issued from the kantele; sweetly, more sweetly, the tones of the wonderful singer vibrated in the air.
Who acts: music · What happens: issue, vibrate, strain, intonate · To what, where: strains, kantele, wonderful singer, air
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), 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 | Softly | softly | ADV | _ | 4 softly | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Softly | punct |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 softly | advmod |
| 4 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 7 strains | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 softly | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 strains | det |
| 7 | strains | strain | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 music | case |
| 9 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strains | nmod |
| 10 | issued | issue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 strains | acl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 kantele | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kantele | det |
| 13 | kantele | kantele | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 issued | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 sweetly | punct |
| 15 | sweetly | sweetly | ADV | _ | 7 strains | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sweetly | punct |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 sweetly | advmod |
| 18 | sweetly | sweetly | ADV | _ | 15 sweetly | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sweetly | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tones | det |
| 21 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sweetly | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 singer | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 singer | det |
| 24 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 singer | amod |
| 25 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tones | nmod |
| 26 | vibrated | vibrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 singer | acl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 air | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 air | det |
| 29 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 vibrated | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 strains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | issue | participle | the strains of music not said here | the kantele | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | vibrate | participle | the wonderful singer not said here | the air | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location | ||||
| 4 | strain | music | nom strain «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | intonate | the wonderful singer | nom tone «communication 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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