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description: If the waves had overcome you, if Water had sent you, your coat would be wringing wet and your wan face would be overspread with moisture. Who acts: coat. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 67

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If the waves had overcome you, if Water had sent you, your coat would be wringing wet and your wan face would be overspread with moisture.

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**Who acts:** coat · **What happens:** overcome, send, wring, overspread · **To what, where:** waves, Water, you, wan face

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coat), 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:pg66819:14:67
# text = If the waves had overcome you, if Water had sent you, your coat would be wringing wet and your wan face would be overspread with moisture.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	overcome	overcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
18	wringing	wring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
19	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	wan	wan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	overspread	overspread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	moisture	moisture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overcome** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | the waves |  |  |  | you *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | Water | you |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination you=Theme |
| 3 | **wring** | would · progressive | your coat |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **overspread** | would · passive |  | your wan face |  |  |  | with moisture | tree rules |

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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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