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title: It will delight the young, the old, the rich, the poor—all sorts of… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: It will delight the young, the old, the rich, the poor—all sorts of people—with its rare and matchless melodies. Who acts: music. 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 78

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It will delight the young, the old, the rich, the poor—all sorts of people—with its rare and matchless melodies.

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**Who acts:** music · **What happens:** delight, sort · **To what, where:** young, people

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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 (music), 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:pg66819:34:78
# text = It will delight the young, the old, the rich, the poor—all sorts of people—with its rare and matchless melodies.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	delight	delight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	young	young	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
23	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	matchless	matchless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	melodies	melody	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **delight** | future | music | the young |  |  |  | with music's rare melodies; all sorts of people *obl* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus young=Experiencer |
| 2 | **sort** |  |  | people |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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