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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 56

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He counted them over, giving to each a magic number—two tips of white swan feathers, a bottle of milk from a young red heifer, a grain of barley grown in a land beyond the sea, and the fleece of a lambkin not one day old.

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**Who acts:** Smith · **What happens:** count over, give, grow · **To what, where:** ends, magic number, barley, land

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Smith), 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:pg66819:10:56
# text = He counted them over, giving to each a magic number—two tips of white swan feathers, a bottle of milk from a young red heifer, a grain of barley grown in a land beyond the sea, and the fleece of a lambkin not one day old.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	counted	count	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	tips	tip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	heifer	heifer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	fleece	fleece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	lambkin	lambkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
48	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
49	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	50	nummod	_	_
50	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl:unmarked	_	_
51	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count over** | past | Smith | ends *= end* |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | gerund | Smith *not said here* |  | each magic number  two tips of white swan feathers and a bottle of milk from a young red heifer and a grain of barley |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to number=Recipient |
| 3 | **grow** | participle |  | barley *not said here* |  | a land beyond the sea |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location |

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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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