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title: She mixed this with milk and ashes, and thus made a magic soap that… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: She mixed this with milk and ashes, and thus made a magic soap that was pure and white and cleansing. Who acts: Anniki, magic soap. 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 88

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She mixed this with milk and ashes, and thus made a magic soap that was pure and white and cleansing.

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**Who acts:** Anniki, magic soap · **What happens:** mix, make, be, cleanse · **To what, where:** this, magic soap

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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 (Anniki, magic soap), 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:pg66819:20:88
# text = She mixed this with milk and ashes, and thus made a magic soap that was pure and white and cleansing.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	mixed	mix	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	cleansing	cleanse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mix** | past | Anniki | this |  |  |  | with milk and ashes | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent this=Patient with milk=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **make** | past | Anniki *not said here* | a magic soap |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soap=Product |
| 3 | **is** | past | a magic soap |  |  |  |  | pure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | a magic soap *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cleanse** | gerund | a magic soap *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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