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title: It kept on grinding, grinding; and no matter on which side it was pl… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: It kept on grinding, grinding; and no matter on which side it was placed, its wheels kept running, and flour or salt or gold and silver kept pouring out in endless streams. Who acts: more, wheels, flour. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the S
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 70

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It kept on grinding, grinding; and no matter on which side it was placed, its wheels kept running, and flour or salt or gold and silver kept pouring out in endless streams.

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**Who acts:** more, wheels, flour · **What happens:** keep, grind, place, run, pour out · **To what, where:** matter, endless streams

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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 (more, wheels, flour), 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:pg66819:11:70
# text = It kept on grinding, grinding; and no matter on which side it was placed, its wheels kept running, and flour or salt or gold and silver kept pouring out in endless streams.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	grinding	grind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	grinding	grind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	13	det	_	_
13	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
24	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
31	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
32	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	xcomp	_	_
33	out	out	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	endless	endless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | more |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grind** | gerund | more *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **grind** | gerund | more *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **place** | past · passive |  | no matter on which side |  |  |  | more *nsubj:pass* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **keep** | past | more's wheels |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **run** | gerund | more's wheels *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **keep** | past | flour or salt or gold and silver |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **pour out** | gerund | flour or salt or gold and silver *not said here* |  |  | endless streams |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |

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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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