---
title: For one whole day—yes, for two long, dreamy days—the Minstrel played… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: For one whole day—yes, for two long, dreamy days—the Minstrel played thus upon the harp strings, upon the inimitable kantele, and as he played he sang the songs of truth and beauty which he had learned from the Wisdom Keeper, from the earth, the sea, and the sky. Who acts: Minstrel, Nor, truth. A se
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/35/91/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old No…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/) / [The Triumph of Music](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/35/) / 91

# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 91

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
For one whole day—yes, for two long, dreamy days—the Minstrel played thus upon the harp strings, upon the inimitable kantele, and as he played he sang the songs of truth and beauty which he had learned from the Wisdom Keeper, from the earth, the sea, and the sky.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Minstrel, Nor, truth · **What happens:** play, sing, learn · **To what, where:** sky, songs, truth, Wisdom Keeper

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Minstrel, Nor, truth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:35:91
# text = For one whole day—yes, for two long, dreamy days—the Minstrel played thus upon the harp strings, upon the inimitable kantele, and as he played he sang the songs of truth and beauty which he had learned from the Wisdom Keeper, from the earth, the sea, and the sky.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	dreamy	dreamy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
18	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	inimitable	inimitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	kantele	kantele	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	obj	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	acl:relcl	_	_
45	from	from	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	Wisdom	Wisdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	Keeper	Keeper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	from	from	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | the Minstrel |  |  |  |  | upon the harp strings upon the inimitable kantele; thus *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **play** | past | Nor | the sky |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Nor | the songs of truth and beauty |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 4 | **learn** | past · perfect | Nor | truth and beauty |  | the Wisdom Keeper |  | from the earth and the sea | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent which=Topic from keeper=Source |
| 6 | **sing** |  | truth and beauty |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/35/90/)
- next →: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/35/92/)
- ↑ back to [The Triumph of Music](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/35/)