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title: “Not one of you can draw cheerful music from it, and yet the melodie… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Not one of you can draw cheerful music from it, and yet the melodies are there; they lie hidden in the strings of horsehair, in the jawbone of the pike.” Who acts: one, melodies. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 90

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“Not one of you can draw cheerful music from it, and yet the melodies are there; they lie hidden in the strings of horsehair, in the jawbone of the pike.”

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**Who acts:** one, melodies · **What happens:** draw, be, lie, hide · **To what, where:** cheerful music, instrument, jawbone, strings

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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 (one, melodies), 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:pg66819:34:90
# text = “Not one of you can draw cheerful music from it, and yet the melodies are there; they lie hidden in the strings of horsehair, in the jawbone of the pike.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	melodies	melody	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	xcomp	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	horsehair	horsehair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	jawbone	jawbone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** *in a quote* | can | one of you | cheerful music |  | instrument |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent music=Theme from it=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the melodies |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie** *in a quote* | present | melodies *= melody* |  |  | the jawbone of the pike |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hide** *in a quote* | participle | melodies *= melody* *not said here* |  |  | the strings of horsehair |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in string=Location |

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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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