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title: Take the mill to some safe place and confine it within strong walls,… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Take the mill to some safe place and confine it within strong walls, lest it overwhelm us with prosperity.” 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 73

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Take the mill to some safe place and confine it within strong walls, lest it overwhelm us with prosperity.”

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**Who acts:** you, mill · **What happens:** take, confine, overwhelm · **To what, where:** mill, safe place, us

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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:pg66819:11:73
# text = Take the mill to some safe place and confine it within strong walls, lest it overwhelm us with prosperity.”
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	confine	confine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	within	within	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	overwhelm	overwhelm	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
18	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | the mill |  | some safe place |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mill=Theme to place=Destination |
| 2 | **confine** | infinitive | you *not said here* | mill |  |  |  | within strong walls | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **overwhelm** | present | mill | us |  |  |  | with prosperity | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer |

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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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