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title: Make its beam of silver and its handles of red copper, and strengthe… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Make its beam of silver and its handles of red copper, and strengthen it throughout with spells of magic. Who acts: you, field. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 66

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Make its beam of silver and its handles of red copper, and strengthen it throughout with spells of magic.

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**Who acts:** you, field · **What happens:** make, strengthen throughout, beam, spell · **To what, where:** beam, field, silver, magic

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, field), 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:pg66819:24:66
# text = Make its beam of silver and its handles of red copper, and strengthen it throughout with spells of magic.
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	handles	handle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	strengthen	strengthen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	throughout	throughout	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	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* | field's beam of silver and field's handles of red copper |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset beam=Product |
| 2 | **strengthen throughout** | infinitive |  | field |  |  |  | with spells of magic | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with spell=Instrument |
| 3 | **beam** |  | field | silver |  |  |  |  | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
| 4 | **spell** |  |  | magic |  |  |  |  | nom spell «state 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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