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title: And the Old Man of the Sea, even the king of the boundless deep, cam… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And the Old Man of the Sea, even the king of the boundless deep, came, and sitting upon a throne of water-lilies listened with joy to the ravishing melodies that issued from the kantele. Who acts: Old Man, ravishing melodies. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 86

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And the Old Man of the Sea, even the king of the boundless deep, came, and sitting upon a throne of water-lilies listened with joy to the ravishing melodies that issued from the kantele.

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**Who acts:** Old Man, ravishing melodies · **What happens:** come, sit, listen, ravish, issue · **To what, where:** throne, water lilies, kantele

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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 (Old Man, ravishing 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:pg66819:35:86
# text = And the Old Man of the Sea, even the king of the boundless deep, came, and sitting upon a throne of water-lilies listened with joy to the ravishing melodies that issued from the kantele.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	boundless	boundless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	advcl	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
28	listened	listen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	ravishing	ravish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	amod	_	_
34	melodies	melody	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	issued	issue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	kantele	kantele	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Old Man of the Sea |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | the Old Man of the Sea *not said here* |  |  | a throne of water lilies |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon throne=Location |
| 3 | **listen** | participle |  | water lilies *not said here* |  |  |  | with joy; to the ravishing melodies | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to melody=Theme |
| 4 | **ravish** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **issue** | past | the ravishing melodies |  |  | the kantele |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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