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title: Slowly, piece by piece and part by part, the magic Sampo with its wh… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Slowly, piece by piece and part by part, the magic Sampo with its wheels and levers grew into being. Who acts: piece. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the Sampo, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 41

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Slowly, piece by piece and part by part, the magic Sampo with its wheels and levers grew into being.

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**Who acts:** piece · **What happens:** grow

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging 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 (piece), 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:pg66819:11:41
# text = Slowly, piece by piece and part by part, the magic Sampo with its wheels and levers grew into being.
1	Slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
13	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	levers	lever	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | piece by piece and part by part and the magic with part's wheels and levers |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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