The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 94

And all the while he sang weird songs and muttered strange charms such as his father had taught him.

Who acts: youth, strange charms · What happens: sing, mutter, teach · To what, where: weird songs, strange charms, father, youth

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, strange charms), 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 sang	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 sang	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 all	det
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 sang	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sang	nsubj
6	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 songs	amod
8	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sang	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 muttered	cc
10	muttered	mutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sang	conj
11	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 charms	amod
12	charms	charm	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 muttered	obj
13	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	18 taught	mark
14	as	as	ADP	_	13 such	fixed
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taught	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 taught	aux
18	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 charms	acl:relcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 taught	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	youth	weird songs		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
2	mutter speech: assert	past	youth not said here	strange charms		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=Topic
3	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive	strange charms not said here	youth's father	youth	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic

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 Graybeard and His Son, sentence 94

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 94