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title: Make a handful of soap, for nothing else will cleanse my smoky, grim… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Make a handful of soap, for nothing else will cleanse my smoky, grimy visage. Who acts: you, nothing. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 71

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Make a handful of soap, for nothing else will cleanse my smoky, grimy visage.

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**Who acts:** you, nothing · **What happens:** make, cleanse · **To what, where:** handful, smoky grimy visage

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, nothing), 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:pg66819:20:71
# text = Make a handful of soap, for nothing else will cleanse my smoky, grimy visage.
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	_
9	else	else	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	cleanse	cleanse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
13	smoky	smoky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	grimy	grimy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	visage	visage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | a handful of soap |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset handful=Product |
| 2 | **cleanse** | future | nothing | my smoky grimy visage |  |  |  |  | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visage=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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