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title: If drops of red sap ooze from it, then look for foes and trouble. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: If drops of red sap ooze from it, then look for foes and trouble. Who acts: drops. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 115

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If drops of red sap ooze from it, then look for foes and trouble.

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**Who acts:** drops · **What happens:** look

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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 (drops), 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:pg66819:22:115
# text = If drops of red sap ooze from it, then look for foes and trouble.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	sap	SAP	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ooze	ooze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	foes	foe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | infinitive | drops of red sap ooze from ooze |  |  |  | then | for foes and trouble | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for foe=Theme |

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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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