The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 91
For one whole day—yes, for two long, dreamy days—the Minstrel played thus upon the harp strings, upon the inimitable kantele, and as he played he sang the songs of truth and beauty which he had learned from the Wisdom Keeper, from the earth, the sea, and the sky.
Who acts: Minstrel, Nor, truth · What happens: play, sing, learn · To what, where: sky, songs, truth, Wisdom Keeper
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 (Minstrel, Nor, truth), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 day | nummod |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 6 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 13 days | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 days | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 days | case |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 days | nummod |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 days | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 long | punct |
| 12 | dreamy | dreamy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 days | amod |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 day | parataxis |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 played | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Minstrel | det |
| 16 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 played | nsubj |
| 17 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 days | parataxis |
| 18 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 17 played | advmod |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 strings | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 strings | det |
| 21 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 strings | compound |
| 22 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 played | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 kantele | punct |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 kantele | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 kantele | det |
| 26 | inimitable | inimitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 kantele | amod |
| 27 | kantele | kantele | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 strings | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 played | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 played | cc |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 played | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 played | nsubj |
| 32 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 played | conj |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 sang | nsubj |
| 34 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 played | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 songs | det |
| 36 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 sang | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 truth | case |
| 38 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 songs | nmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 beauty | cc |
| 40 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 truth | conj |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 learned | obj |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 learned | nsubj |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 learned | aux |
| 44 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 truth | acl:relcl |
| 45 | from | from | ADP | _ | 48 Keeper | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Keeper | det |
| 47 | Wisdom | Wisdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Keeper | compound |
| 48 | Keeper | Keeper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 learned | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 earth | punct |
| 50 | from | from | ADP | _ | 52 earth | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 earth | det |
| 52 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 learned | obl |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 sea | punct |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 sea | det |
| 55 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 earth | conj |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 sky | punct |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 sky | cc |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 sky | det |
| 59 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 played | obl |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | the Minstrel | upon the harp strings upon the inimitable kantele; thus property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | play | past | Nor | the sky | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | Nor | the songs of truth and beauty | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 4 | learn | past · perfect | Nor | truth and beauty | the Wisdom Keeper | from the earth and the sea | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent which=Topic from keeper=Source | ||
| 6 | sing | truth and beauty | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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