The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 66
One sweet note followed another, pleasures indescribable issued from the harp of fish-bone, while the Minstrel sang his rarest, richest songs—songs so melodious that every heart was entranced, bewitched, overcome with joy.
Who acts: One sweet note, Minstrel, note · What happens: follow, issue, sing, entrance, bewitch, overcome · To what, where: pleasures indescribable, harp, rarest richest songs, heart, 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 (One sweet note, Minstrel, note), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 note | nummod |
| 2 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 note | amod |
| 3 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 followed | nsubj |
| 4 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 indescribable | det |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pleasures | punct |
| 7 | pleasures | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 indescribable | compound |
| 8 | indescribable | indescribable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 followed | obj |
| 9 | issued | issue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 indescribable | acl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 harp | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 harp | det |
| 12 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 issued | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 bone | case |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bone | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 fish | punct |
| 16 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 harp | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sang | punct |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 sang | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Minstrel | det |
| 20 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sang | nsubj |
| 21 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 followed | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 songs | nmod:poss |
| 23 | rarest | rare | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 songs | amod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rarest | punct |
| 25 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 songs | amod |
| 26 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sang | obj |
| 27 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 songs | punct |
| 28 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 songs | conj |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 melodious | advmod |
| 30 | melodious | melodious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 songs | acl |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 entranced | mark |
| 32 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 heart | det |
| 33 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 entranced | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 entranced | aux:pass |
| 35 | entranced | entrance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 melodious | advcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 bewitched | punct |
| 37 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 songs | acl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 overcome | punct |
| 39 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 bewitched | conj |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 joy | case |
| 41 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 overcome | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | One sweet note | another pleasures indescribable | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent indescribable=Theme | ||||
| 2 | issue | participle | another pleasures indescribable not said here | the harp of fish bone | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | the Minstrel | note's rarest richest songs and songs | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 4 | entrance | past · passive | every heart | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | bewitch | participle | songs not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | overcome | infinitive | with joy | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 7 | sing | note | nom song «communication intransitive»: 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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