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title: The Sampo was grinding treasures for Dame Louhi’s people, and laying… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sampo was grinding treasures for Dame Louhi’s people, and laying them up for future uses—richness for the land, golden sap for the trees, and warm and balmy breezes to make all things flourish. Who acts: Sampo, laying, things. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Ba
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 79

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The Sampo was grinding treasures for Dame Louhi’s people, and laying them up for future uses—richness for the land, golden sap for the trees, and warm and balmy breezes to make all things flourish.

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**Who acts:** Sampo, laying, things · **What happens:** grind, lay up, use, make, flourish · **To what, where:** treasures, richness, things

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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 (Sampo, laying, things), 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:pg66819:11:79
# text = The Sampo was grinding treasures for Dame Louhi’s people, and laying them up for future uses—richness for the land, golden sap for the trees, and warm and balmy breezes to make all things flourish.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	grinding	grind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	Louhi	Louhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	richness	richness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	sap	SAP	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	balmy	balmy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
35	breezes	breeze	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
38	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
39	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	flourish	flourish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grind** | past · progressive | the Sampo | treasures |  |  |  | for Dame's people | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent treasure=Product for people=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **lay up** | gerund |  | treasures *= treasure* |  |  |  | for future | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Result for future=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **use** | present | laying | richness and warm breezes |  |  |  | for the land | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent richness=Theme for land=Eventuality |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | laying *not said here* | all things |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product |
| 5 | **flourish** | present | all things *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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