The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 94
And from the kantele he drew forth such marvellous melodies that not one among all his hearers could refrain from weeping.
Who acts: wonder, one · What happens: draw, not refrain · To what, where: such marvellous melodies, kantele, weeping
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 (wonder, one), 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 | _ | 6 drew | cc |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 kantele | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kantele | det |
| 4 | kantele | kantele | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drew | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 drew | nsubj |
| 6 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 6 drew | advmod |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 melodies | amod |
| 9 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 melodies | amod |
| 10 | melodies | melody | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 drew | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 refrain | obj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 refrain | advmod |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 refrain | nsubj |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 hearers | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 hearers | det:predet |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hearers | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hearers | hearer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 refrain | aux |
| 19 | refrain | refrain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 melodies | acl:relcl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 weeping | case |
| 21 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 refrain | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | wonder | such marvellous melodies | the kantele | forth property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent melody=Theme from kantele=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | not refrain | could | one among wonder's hearers | such marvellous melodies | weeping | tree rules |
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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