--- title: You may hear the Sampo whirring, you may hear its pictured cover gri… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: You may hear the Sampo whirring, you may hear its pictured cover grinding in the cavern where I placed it—but it whirs for me alone, it grinds out wealth and plenty for my people and for no other.” Who acts: You, pictured cover, I, cover. 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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 (You, pictured cover, I, cover), 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:pg66819:35:53 # text = You may hear the Sampo whirring, you may hear its pictured cover grinding in the cavern where I placed it—but it whirs for me alone, it grinds out wealth and plenty for my people and for no other.” 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 Sampo Sampo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 whirring whirring NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 pictured picture VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 13 cover cover NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 grinding grind VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 cavern cavern NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 20 advmod _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 placed place VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 — - PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 whirs whir VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 28 alone alone ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 grinds grind VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 32 out out ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 wealth wealth NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 plenty plenty NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 42 det _ _ 42 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | may | You | the Sampo whirring | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whirring=Stimulus | | 2 | **hear** | may | you | whirring's pictured cover | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cover=Stimulus | | 3 | **picture** | participle | | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **grind** | gerund | whirring's pictured cover *not said here* | | | the cavern | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **place** | past | I | cover | | | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **whir** | present | cover | | | | | for me; alone *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **grind out** | present | cover | wealth and plenty | | | | for my people | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wealth=Product for people=Beneficiary | 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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/35/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/35/54/) - ↑ back to [The Triumph of Music](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/35/)