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title: It is the magic mill which grinds out all sorts of treasures and giv… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: It is the magic mill which grinds out all sorts of treasures and gives wealth and power to its possessor. Who acts: thing, magic mill. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 122

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It is the magic mill which grinds out all sorts of treasures and gives wealth and power to its possessor.

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**Who acts:** thing, magic mill · **What happens:** be, grind out, give, sort · **To what, where:** magic mill, sorts, wealth, possessor, treasures

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, magic 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:pg66819:2:122
# text = It is the magic mill which grinds out all sorts of treasures and gives wealth and power to its possessor.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	grinds	grind	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	possessor	possessor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | thing | the magic mill |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grind out** | present | the magic mill | all sorts of treasures |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Patient |
| 3 | **give** | present | the magic mill *not said here* | wealth and power | thing's possessor |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme to possessor=Recipient |
| 4 | **sort** |  |  | treasures |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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