The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 129
Then there came a whistling, sizzling sound, and the sap began to trickle slowly from the tiny pores.
Who acts: whistling, sap · What happens: come, sizzle, begin, trickle · To what, where: sound, tiny pores
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 (whistling, sap), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 came | expl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 whistling | det |
| 5 | whistling | whistling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sizzling | punct |
| 7 | sizzling | sizzle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 8 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sizzling | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 began | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 began | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sap | det |
| 12 | sap | SAP | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 began | nsubj |
| 13 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 trickle | mark |
| 15 | trickle | trickle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 began | xcomp |
| 16 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 15 trickle | advmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 pores | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pores | det |
| 19 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pores | amod |
| 20 | pores | pore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 trickle | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a whistling | there | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | sizzle | gerund | a whistling not said here | sound | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the sap | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | trickle | to-infinitive | the sap not said here | the tiny pores | slowly property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from pore=Source |
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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