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title: Bake them, boil them, mix them, brew them into a magic ointment that… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Bake them, boil them, mix them, brew them into a magic ointment that will heal all manner of wounds. Who acts: you, magic ointment. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 79

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Bake them, boil them, mix them, brew them into a magic ointment that will heal all manner of wounds.

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**Who acts:** you, magic ointment · **What happens:** bake, boil, mix, brew, heal · **To what, where:** herbs, magic ointment, manner

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, magic ointment), 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:pg66819:4:79
# text = Bake them, boil them, mix them, brew them into a magic ointment that will heal all manner of wounds.
1	Bake	bake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	boil	boil	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	mix	mix	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	brew	brew	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ointment	ointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	heal	heal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bake** | imperative | you *not said here* | herbs *= herb* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product |
| 2 | **boil** | infinitive | you *not said here* | herbs *= herb* |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **mix** | infinitive | you *not said here* | herbs *= herb* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **brew** | infinitive | you *not said here* | herbs *= herb* |  | a magic ointment |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product |
| 5 | **heal** | future | a magic ointment | all manner of wounds |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent manner=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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