The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 16
Perhaps they see some beggar or wild man coming down the path from the forest.”
Who acts: dogs, wild man · What happens: see, come down · To what, where: beggar, path, forest
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 (dogs, wild man), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 3 see | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 beggar | det |
| 5 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 man | cc |
| 7 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beggar | conj |
| 9 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 man | acl |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 path | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 path | det |
| 12 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coming | obl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coming | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | dogs = dog | some beggar or wild man | perhaps property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beggar=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come down | gerund | wild man not said here | the path | the forest | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location path=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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