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title: Here is something that will breathe forth music sweeter than a minst… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Here is something that will breathe forth music sweeter than a minstrel’s song. Who acts: something, minstrel. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 77

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Here is something that will breathe forth music sweeter than a minstrel’s song.

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**Who acts:** something, minstrel · **What happens:** be, breathe, sing · **To what, where:** music

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something, minstrel), 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:pg66819:34:77
# text = Here is something that will breathe forth music sweeter than a minstrel’s song.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | something |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **breathe** | future |  | music |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Theme |
| 3 | **sing** |  | a minstrel |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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