The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 74
They kept a fine bird dog always tethered at the stern, and three or four puppy dogs ran whining about the deck.
Who acts: bows, three puppy dogs · What happens: keep, tether, run, whine · To what, where: fine bird dog, stern
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bows, three puppy dogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dog | amod |
| 5 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dog | compound |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kept | obj |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 tethered | advmod |
| 8 | tethered | tether | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dog | acl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 stern | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stern | det |
| 11 | stern | stern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tethered | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ran | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ran | cc |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 dogs | nummod |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 four | cc |
| 16 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 three | conj |
| 17 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dogs | compound |
| 18 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 ran | nsubj |
| 19 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kept | conj |
| 20 | whining | whine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 ran | xcomp |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 deck | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 deck | det |
| 23 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 whining | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | bows = bow | a fine bird dog | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tether | participle | a fine bird dog not said here | the stern | always property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | run | past | three puppy dogs | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | whine | gerund | three puppy dogs not said here | about the deck | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about deck=Topic |
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.
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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