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title: Never before had such music been heard, never since has any song bee… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Never before had such music been heard, never since has any song been sung that equalled it, and never so long as the world endures shall man again listen to words so sweet or to harmonies so divine. Who acts: that, world, man. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldw
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 97

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Never before had such music been heard, never since has any song been sung that equalled it, and never so long as the world endures shall man again listen to words so sweet or to harmonies so divine.

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**Who acts:** that, world, man · **What happens:** have, hear, not have, sing, equall, endure · **To what, where:** such music, song, music · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, world, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:17:97
# text = Never before had such music been heard, never since has any song been sung that equalled it, and never so long as the world endures shall man again listen to words so sweet or to harmonies so divine.
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	before	before	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	xcomp	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
17	equalled	equall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	obl	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	endures	endure	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
28	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	again	again	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	advcl	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	harmonies	harmony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
39	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	divine	divine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | participle |  |  |  |  | never | before *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** | participle · passive |  | such music |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **have** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | participle · passive |  | any song |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **equall** | past | that | music |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **endure** | present | the world |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **listen** | shall | man |  |  |  |  | to words; so divine | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme |

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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.

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**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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