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title: If by your power in magic you can mix these ingredients properly, th… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: If by your power in magic you can mix these ingredients properly, the mill is made—it will do its work. Who acts: you, mill. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Recipe, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 54

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If by your power in magic you can mix these ingredients properly, the mill is made—it will do its work.

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**Who acts:** you, mill · **What happens:** mix, make, do, work · **To what, where:** ingredients, mill, work

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Recipe. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mill), 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:pg66819:9:54
# text = If by your power in magic you can mix these ingredients properly, the mill is made—it will do its work.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	mix	mix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	ingredients	ingredient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mix** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you | this ingredients |  |  |  | by your power in magic; properly *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ingredient=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present · passive |  | the mill |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **do** | future | mill | mill's work |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 4 | **work** |  | mill |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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