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title: Let naught but clearest water ooze from thy pores so tiny,” muttered… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Let naught but clearest water ooze from thy pores so tiny,” muttered the Mistress of Pohyola. Who acts: you. 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 126

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Let naught but clearest water ooze from thy pores so tiny,” muttered the Mistress of Pohyola.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** let, mutter · **To what, where:** naught, pores, Mistress

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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 (you), 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:pg66819:22:126
# text = Let naught but clearest water ooze from thy pores so tiny,” muttered the Mistress of Pohyola.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	naught	naught	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	1	obj	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	clearest	clear	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ooze	ooze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	pores	pore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
14	muttered	mutter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | naught  clearest water ooze |  | thy pores |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naught=Theme |
| 2 | **mutter** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | you *not said here* | the Mistress of Pohyola |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistress=Topic |

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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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