The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 20

Gently he began to sing, softly he chanted a song so sweet, so strong, that it had power to move the rocks and even persuade the mighty hills and the restless sea.

Who acts: hero, song, power · What happens: begin, sing, chant, have, move, persuade · To what, where: song, power, rocks, mighty hills

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero, song, power), 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	Gently	gently	ADV	_	3 began	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sing	mark
5	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 chanted	punct
7	softly	softly	ADV	_	9 chanted	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 chanted	nsubj
9	chanted	chant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 song	det
11	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chanted	obj
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 sweet	advmod
13	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 chanted	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 strong	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 strong	advmod
16	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 began	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 had	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
21	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 move	mark
23	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 had	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rocks	det
25	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 move	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 persuade	cc
27	even	even	ADV	_	28 persuade	advmod
28	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 move	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hills	det
30	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hills	amod
31	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 persuade	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 sea	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sea	det
34	restless	restless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 sea	amod
35	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hills	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	hero		gently property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	hero not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	chant	past	hero	a song	softly, sweet property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Topic
4	have	past	song	power		tree rules
5	move	to-infinitive	power not said here	the rocks		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rock=Theme
6	persuade	infinitive	power not said here	the mighty hills and the restless sea		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Patient

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 Flight, sentence 20

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 20