The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 78

Wild ducks from the deep inlets of the northern sea and snow-white swans from the marshes of Pohyola came in flocks to hearken to his singing.

Who acts: Wild ducks, Pohyola · What happens: come, hearken, sing · To what, where: flocks

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 (Wild ducks, Pohyola), 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	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ducks	amod
2	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 came	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 inlets	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 inlets	det
5	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 inlets	amod
6	inlets	inlet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ducks	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
9	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sea	amod
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 inlets	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 swans	cc
12	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 swans	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 snow	punct
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 swans	amod
15	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sea	conj
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 marshes	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 marshes	det
18	marshes	marsh	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 swans	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Pohyola	case
20	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 marshes	nmod
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 flocks	case
23	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 came	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 hearken	mark
25	hearken	hearken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 came	advcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 singing	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 singing	nmod:poss
28	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hearken	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Wild ducks from the deep inlets of the northern sea and snow white swans from the marshes of Pohyola	flocks		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in flock=Location
2	hearken	to-infinitive	Wild ducks from the deep inlets of the northern sea and snow white swans from the marshes of Pohyola not said here		to Pohyola's singing	tree rules
3	sing		Pohyola			nom singing «act 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 78

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 78