The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 130

Sweet was the music that he called forth, sweeter than any that mortal man has ever heard since that day; and as he played he sang again the old, old songs of the world’s beginning, the old, old songs with which he had already charmed not only men and women, but all living things.

Who acts: Sweet, mortal man, beginning, world · What happens: be, call, hear, play, sing, charm · To what, where: music, old old songs, men · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sweet, mortal man, beginning, world), 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	Sweet	Sweet	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 music	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 music	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 music	det
4	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 called	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 called	nsubj
7	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 music	acl:relcl
8	forth	forth	ADV	_	7 called	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sweeter	punct
10	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 music	parataxis
11	than	than	SCONJ	_	18 heard	mark
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 man	det
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 man	det
14	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heard	nsubj
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 heard	aux
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 heard	advmod
18	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 sweeter	advcl
19	since	since	ADP	_	21 day	case
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 day	det
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heard	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 played	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 played	cc
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 played	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 played	nsubj
26	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 music	parataxis
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sang	nsubj
28	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 played	conj
29	again	again	ADV	_	28 sang	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 songs	det
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 songs	amod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 old	punct
33	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 songs	amod
34	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sang	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	39 beginning	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 world	det
37	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 beginning	nmod:poss
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 world	case
39	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 songs	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 songs	punct
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 songs	det
42	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 songs	amod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 old	punct
44	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 songs	amod
45	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 songs	conj
46	with	with	ADP	_	47 which	case
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 charmed	obl
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 charmed	nsubj
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 charmed	aux
50	already	already	ADV	_	51 charmed	advmod
51	charmed	charm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 songs	acl
52	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	54 men	advmod
53	only	only	ADV	_	54 men	advmod
54	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 charmed	obj
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 women	cc
56	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 men	conj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 things	punct
58	but	but	CCONJ	_	61 things	cc
59	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	61 things	det
60	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	61 things	amod
61	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 songs	conj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 music	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Sweet	the music			tree rules
2	call	past	Sweet	the music not said here		forth property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent music=Recipient
3	hear	present · perfect	any mortal man		ever; day		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	play	past	Sweet				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sing speech: express	past	Sweet	the old old songs of the world's beginning and the old old songs but all living things	again		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
6	charm	past · perfect	Sweet	men and women		with the old old songs	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer
7	live	gerund					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	sing		the world's beginning				nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent
9	begin		the world				nom beginning «event 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 Fate of the Sampo, sentence 130