The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 86
And the Old Man of the Sea, even the king of the boundless deep, came, and sitting upon a throne of water-lilies listened with joy to the ravishing melodies that issued from the kantele.
Who acts: Old Man, ravishing melodies · What happens: come, sit, listen, ravish, issue · To what, where: throne, water lilies, kantele
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 (Old Man, ravishing 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Man | det |
| 3 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Man | amod |
| 4 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sea | det |
| 7 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Man | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 king | punct |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 king | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Man | appos |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 deep | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 deep | det |
| 14 | boundless | boundless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 deep | amod |
| 15 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 king | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Man | punct |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sitting | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sitting | cc |
| 20 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 came | advcl |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 throne | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 throne | det |
| 23 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sitting | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 lilies | case |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lilies | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 water | punct |
| 27 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 throne | nmod |
| 28 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 lilies | acl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 joy | case |
| 30 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 listened | obl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 melodies | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 melodies | det |
| 33 | ravishing | ravish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 melodies | amod |
| 34 | melodies | melody | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 listened | obl |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 issued | nsubj |
| 36 | issued | issue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 melodies | acl:relcl |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 kantele | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 kantele | det |
| 39 | kantele | kantele | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 issued | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Old Man of the Sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sit | gerund | the Old Man of the Sea not said here | a throne of water lilies | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon throne=Location | ||||
| 3 | listen | participle | water lilies not said here | with joy; to the ravishing melodies | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to melody=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ravish | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | issue | past | the ravishing melodies | the kantele | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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