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description: These he mixed in a magic caldron, throwing upon them many bits of precious metals, with strange wild herbs and rank poisons and sweet honey dew. Who acts: These. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 57

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These he mixed in a magic caldron, throwing upon them many bits of precious metals, with strange wild herbs and rank poisons and sweet honey dew.

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**Who acts:** These · **What happens:** mix, throw · **To what, where:** magic caldron, many bits

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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 (These), 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:pg66819:10:57
# text = These he mixed in a magic caldron, throwing upon them many bits of precious metals, with strange wild herbs and rank poisons and sweet honey dew.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	mixed	mix	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	caldron	caldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	metals	metal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	poisons	poison	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mix** | past | These |  |  | a magic caldron |  | Smith *nsubj* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **throw** | gerund | These *not said here* | many bits of precious metals |  |  | upon ends *= end* | with strange wild herbs and rank poisons and sweet honey dew | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bit=Theme upon they=Destination |

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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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