The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 105
“But who can these strangers be?
What happens: be
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 be | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 be | cc |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 be | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 be | aux |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 strangers | det |
| 6 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 be | nsubj |
| 7 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | can in a quote | can | who nsubj; this strangers nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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