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title: Lay it on this side and it will grind flour—flour for your kitchen,… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Lay it on this side and it will grind flour—flour for your kitchen, flour for your neighbors, flour for the market. Who acts: you, mill. 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 56

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Lay it on this side and it will grind flour—flour for your kitchen, flour for your neighbors, flour for the market.

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**Who acts:** you, mill · **What happens:** lay, grind · **To what, where:** mill, side, flour

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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 (you, mill), 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:pg66819:11:56
# text = Lay it on this side and it will grind flour—flour for your kitchen, flour for your neighbors, flour for the market.
1	Lay	lay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	grind	grind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
10	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | imperative | you *not said here* | mill |  | this side |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on side=Destination |
| 2 | **grind** | future | mill | flour |  |  |  | for the market; flour for your kitchen and flour for your neighbors and flour *obl* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent flour=Material for market=Beneficiary |

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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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