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title: Sweet was the music that he called forth, sweeter than any that mort… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Sweet was the music that he called forth, sweeter than any that mortal man has ever heard since that day; and as he played he sang again the old, old songs of the world’s beginning, the old, old songs with which he had already charmed not only men and women, but all living things. Who acts: Sweet, m
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 130

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Sweet was the music that he called forth, sweeter than any that mortal man has ever heard since that day; and as he played he sang again the old, old songs of the world’s beginning, the old, old songs with which he had already charmed not only men and women, but all living things.

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**Who acts:** Sweet, mortal man, beginning, world · **What happens:** be, call, hear, play, sing, charm · **To what, where:** music, old old songs, men · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sweet, mortal man, beginning, world), 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:pg66819:38:130
# text = Sweet was the music that he called forth, sweeter than any that mortal man has ever heard since that day; and as he played he sang again the old, old songs of the world’s beginning, the old, old songs with which he had already charmed not only men and women, but all living things.
1	Sweet	Sweet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	parataxis	_	_
11	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
18	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
19	since	since	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
29	again	again	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’s	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
42	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
44	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	obl	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
49	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
50	already	already	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	charmed	charm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	45	acl	_	_
52	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	54	advmod	_	_
53	only	only	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obj	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
58	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
59	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	61	det	_	_
60	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	61	amod	_	_
61	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Sweet | the music |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | past | Sweet | the music *not said here* |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent music=Recipient |
| 3 | **hear** | present · perfect | any mortal man |  |  |  | ever; day |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **play** | past | Sweet |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Sweet | the old old songs of the world's beginning and the old old songs but all living things |  |  | again |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 6 | **charm** | past · perfect | Sweet | men and women |  |  |  | with the old old songs | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer |
| 7 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **sing** |  | the world's beginning |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 9 | **begin** |  | the world |  |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event 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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