--- title: With these he made a mixture such as no other wizard had ever compou… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: With these he made a mixture such as no other wizard had ever compounded, and as he stirred it he repeated the runes, the songs of mystery that he had sung while forging the Sampo. Who acts: smoke, mystery. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smoke, mystery), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66819:24:84 # text = With these he made a mixture such as no other wizard had ever compounded, and as he stirred it he repeated the runes, the songs of mystery that he had sung while forging the Sampo. 1 With with ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 4 obl _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 mixture mixture NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ 14 mark _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 11 det _ _ 10 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 wizard wizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 14 advmod _ _ 14 compounded compound VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 stirred stir VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 repeated repeat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 runes rune NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 mystery mystery NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 sung sing VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 34 while while SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 forging forge VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 Sampo Sampo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | smoke | a mixture | | | | with these | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mixture=Product | | 2 | **compound** | past · perfect · passive | | no other wizard | | | ever | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **stir** | past | smoke | mixture | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer | | 4 | **repeat** | past | smoke | the runes and the songs of mystery | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rune=Eventuality | | 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · perfect | smoke | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 6 | **forge** | gerund | smoke *not said here* | the Sampo | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sampo=Product | | 7 | **sing** | | mystery | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/24/83/) - next →: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/24/85/) - ↑ back to [The Field of Serpents](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/24/)