The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 116
If only clear water bubbles, hissing, from its tiny pores, then be sure that friends are coming bringing rich gifts and joyful tidings.
Who acts: clear water bubbles, you, friends · What happens: hiss, be, come, bring · To what, where: tiny pores, rich gifts
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clear water bubbles, you, friends), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 hissing | mark |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 clear | advmod |
| 3 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bubbles | amod |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bubbles | compound |
| 5 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hissing | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hissing | punct |
| 7 | hissing | hiss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 sure | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pores | punct |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 pores | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 pores | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pores | amod |
| 12 | pores | pore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hissing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hissing | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 sure | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sure | cop |
| 16 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 coming | mark |
| 18 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 coming | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 coming | aux |
| 20 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 sure | ccomp |
| 21 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 coming | xcomp |
| 22 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 gifts | amod |
| 23 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 bringing | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 tidings | cc |
| 25 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tidings | amod |
| 26 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gifts | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hiss a condition, not said to happen | gerund | clear water bubbles | trouble's tiny pores | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | imperative | you not said here | then | sure property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come | present · progressive | friends | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bring | gerund | friends not said here | rich gifts and joyful tidings | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gift=Theme |
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.
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