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title: Then there came a whistling, sizzling sound, and the sap began to tr… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then there came a whistling, sizzling sound, and the sap began to trickle slowly from the tiny pores. Who acts: whistling, sap. 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 129

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Then there came a whistling, sizzling sound, and the sap began to trickle slowly from the tiny pores.

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**Who acts:** whistling, sap · **What happens:** come, sizzle, begin, trickle · **To what, where:** sound, tiny pores

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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 (whistling, sap), 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:pg66819:22:129
# text = Then there came a whistling, sizzling sound, and the sap began to trickle slowly from the tiny pores.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	whistling	whistling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	sizzling	sizzle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sap	SAP	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	trickle	trickle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	pores	pore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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