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title: And when he had ceased singing and the sound of the kantele was hear… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And when he had ceased singing and the sound of the kantele was heard no more, he again raised his hands and called earnestly to the mighty, the invisible Jumala: Who acts: Sweet. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo, with its dependency t
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 131

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And when he had ceased singing and the sound of the kantele was heard no more, he again raised his hands and called earnestly to the mighty, the invisible Jumala:

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**Who acts:** Sweet · **What happens:** cease, sing, hear, raise, call · **To what, where:** invisible Jumala, sound, hands, mighty · **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), 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:pg66819:38:131
# text = And when he had ceased singing and the sound of the kantele was heard no more, he again raised his hands and called earnestly to the mighty, the invisible Jumala:
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	ceased	cease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	kantele	kantele	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	no	no	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
25	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	Jumala	Jumala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cease** | past · perfect | Sweet | the invisible Jumala |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | Sweet *not said here* | the sound |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | past · passive |  | the sound *not said here* |  |  |  | of the kantele | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: of kantele=Stimulus |
| 4 | **raise** | past | Sweet | Sweet's hands |  |  | again |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 5 | **call** | participle | Sweet *not said here* |  | the mighty |  |  | earnestly *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mighty=Recipient |

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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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