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title: That mill is still grinding in Pohyola, its lid of many colors turns… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: That mill is still grinding in Pohyola, its lid of many colors turns and turns and turns forever. Who acts: mill, lid. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 53

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That mill is still grinding in Pohyola, its lid of many colors turns and turns and turns forever.

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**Who acts:** mill, lid · **What happens:** grind, turn · **To what, where:** Pohyola

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mill, lid), 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:pg66819:32:53
# text = That mill is still grinding in Pohyola, its lid of many colors turns and turns and turns forever.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	_	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	grinding	grind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **grind** | present · progressive | that mill |  |  |  | still |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **turn** | present | mill's lid of many colors |  |  | Pohyola |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in pohyola=Trajectory |
| 3 | **turn** | present | mill's lid of many colors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **turn** | present | mill's lid of many colors *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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