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title: And from the kantele he drew forth such marvellous melodies that not… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And from the kantele he drew forth such marvellous melodies that not one among all his hearers could refrain from weeping. Who acts: wonder, one. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 94

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And from the kantele he drew forth such marvellous melodies that not one among all his hearers could refrain from weeping.

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**Who acts:** wonder, one · **What happens:** draw, not refrain · **To what, where:** such marvellous melodies, kantele, weeping

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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 (wonder, one), 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:pg66819:35:94
# text = And from the kantele he drew forth such marvellous melodies that not one among all his hearers could refrain from weeping.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kantele	kantele	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	melodies	melody	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nsubj	_	_
14	among	among	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hearers	hearer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	refrain	refrain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | wonder | such marvellous melodies |  | the kantele |  | forth *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent melody=Theme from kantele=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **refrain** | could | one among wonder's hearers | such marvellous melodies |  | weeping |  |  | tree rules |

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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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