--- title: One sweet note followed another, pleasures indescribable issued from… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: One sweet note followed another, pleasures indescribable issued from the harp of fish-bone, while the Minstrel sang his rarest, richest songs—songs so melodious that every heart was entranced, bewitched, overcome with joy. Who acts: One sweet note, Minstrel, note. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One sweet note, Minstrel, note), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66819:35:66 # text = One sweet note followed another, pleasures indescribable issued from the harp of fish-bone, while the Minstrel sang his rarest, richest songs—songs so melodious that every heart was entranced, bewitched, overcome with joy. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 8 det _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 pleasures pleasure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 compound _ _ 8 indescribable indescribable NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 issued issue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 harp harp NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 while while SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Minstrel Minstrel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 23 rarest rare ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 26 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 richest rich ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 26 amod _ _ 26 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 — - PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 melodious melodious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 acl _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 33 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 entranced entrance VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 bewitched bewitch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 overcome overcome VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 conj _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | past | One sweet note | another pleasures indescribable | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent indescribable=Theme | | 2 | **issue** | participle | | another pleasures indescribable *not said here* | | the harp of fish bone | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the Minstrel | note's rarest richest songs and songs | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | | 4 | **entrance** | past · passive | | every heart | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 5 | **bewitch** | participle | | songs *not said here* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **overcome** | infinitive | | | | | | with joy | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 7 | **sing** | | note | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/35/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/35/67/) - ↑ back to [The Triumph of Music](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/35/)