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title: And all this while the music never ceased, the kantele kept pouring… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And all this while the music never ceased, the kantele kept pouring out its sweetest, rarest treasures, while Wainamoinen sang new songs to charm the listening multitude. Who acts: music, kantele, Wainamoinen. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 112

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And all this while the music never ceased, the kantele kept pouring out its sweetest, rarest treasures, while Wainamoinen sang new songs to charm the listening multitude.

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**Who acts:** music, kantele, Wainamoinen · **What happens:** not cease, keep, pour out, sing, listen, treasure · **To what, where:** sweetest rarest treasures, new songs

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (music, kantele, Wainamoinen), 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:pg66819:35:112
# text = And all this while the music never ceased, the kantele kept pouring out its sweetest, rarest treasures, while Wainamoinen sang new songs to charm the listening multitude.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	ceased	cease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	kantele	kantele	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
16	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	rarest	rare	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	Wainamoinen	Wainamoinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	amod	_	_
30	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **cease** | past | the music |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **keep** | past | the kantele |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pour out** | gerund | the kantele *not said here* | kantele's sweetest rarest treasures |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Patient |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Wainamoinen | new songs |  |  |  | charm *xcomp*; the listening multitude *obj* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent song=Beneficiary multitude=Theme |
| 5 | **listen** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **treasure** |  | kantele |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: 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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