The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 137

They went from place to place, among the lowly as well as the great, singing their songs and playing the kantele, a primitive sort of harp from which they drew entrancing music.

Who acts: memory · What happens: go, sing, play, draw, entrance, sort · To what, where: place, songs, kantele, harp, music

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 (memory), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 place	case
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 place	case
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lowly	punct
8	among	among	ADP	_	10 lowly	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lowly	det
10	lowly	lowly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	parataxis
11	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	15 great	cc
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 as	fixed
13	as	as	ADP	_	11 as	fixed
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 great	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lowly	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 singing	punct
17	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 songs	nmod:poss
19	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 singing	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 playing	cc
21	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 singing	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 kantele	det
23	kantele	kantele	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 playing	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sort	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 sort	det
26	primitive	primitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 sort	amod
27	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 playing	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 harp	case
29	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sort	nmod
30	from	from	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 drew	obl
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 drew	nsubj
33	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 harp	acl:relcl
34	entrancing	entrance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 drew	xcomp
35	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 entrancing	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	memory		place	to place	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from place=Initial_Location to place=Destination
2	sing speech: express	gerund	memory not said here	memory's songs			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
3	play	gerund	memory not said here	the kantele		a primitive sort of harp obl	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kantele=Theme
4	draw	past	memory		harp		tree rules
5	entrance	gerund	memory not said here	music			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus music=Experiencer
6	sing		memory				nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
7	sort			harp			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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 Fate of the Sampo, sentence 137