The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 26
I have no time to stand gaping at the gate, listening to the noise of barking curs.”
Who acts: I, barking curs · What happens: have, stand, gape, listen, bark, noise
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 (I, barking curs), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stand | mark |
| 6 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 time | acl |
| 7 | gaping | gape | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 stand | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 gate | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gate | det |
| 10 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gaping | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 listening | punct |
| 12 | listening | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 gaping | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 noise | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 noise | det |
| 15 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 listening | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 curs | case |
| 17 | barking | bark | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 curs | amod |
| 18 | curs | cur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 noise | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stand | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | gape | gerund | I not said here | at the gate | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at gate=Theme | ||||
| 4 | listen | gerund | I not said here | to the noise of barking curs | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to noise=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bark | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | noise | barking curs | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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