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title: Safely locked in a stony cavern, still it grinds wealth and food and… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Safely locked in a stony cavern, still it grinds wealth and food and clothing without end. Who acts: 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 54

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Safely locked in a stony cavern, still it grinds wealth and food and clothing without end.

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**Who acts:** lid · **What happens:** lock, grind · **To what, where:** stony cavern, wealth

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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 (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:pg66819:32:54
# text = Safely locked in a stony cavern, still it grinds wealth and food and clothing without end.
1	Safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	stony	stony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cavern	cavern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	grinds	grind	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	clothing	clothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	without	without	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lock** | participle |  |  |  | a stony cavern |  | safely *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **grind** | present | lid | wealth and food and clothing |  |  | without end; still |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument wealth=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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