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title: If only clear water bubbles, hissing, from its tiny pores, then be s… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs, with its dependency tree 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 116

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If only clear water bubbles, hissing, from its tiny pores, then be sure that friends are coming bringing rich gifts and joyful tidings.

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**Who acts:** clear water bubbles, you, friends · **What happens:** hiss, be, come, bring · **To what, where:** tiny pores, rich gifts

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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 (clear water bubbles, you, friends), 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:pg66819:22:116
# text = If only clear water bubbles, hissing, from its tiny pores, then be sure that friends are coming bringing rich gifts and joyful tidings.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	hissing	hiss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	pores	pore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	_
21	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	xcomp	_	_
22	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	joyful	joyful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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