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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 28

The ancient house-dog, infirm and toothless as his mistress, rose from his place in the ashes; he dragged himself to the door and set up a mournful howling.

Who acts: ancient house dog, mistress · What happens: infirm, rise, drag, set up · To what, where: place, mistress, door, mournful howling

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 (ancient house dog, mistress), 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

detamodcompoundpunctnsubjpunctparataxisccconjcasenmod:possoblpunctcasenmod:possoblcasedetoblpunctnsubjconjobjcasedetoblccconjcompound:prtdetamodobjpunctrootTheDETancientADJhouseNOUN-PUNCTdogNOUN,PUNCTinfirmVERBandCCONJtoothlessADJasADPhisPRONmistressNOUN,PUNCTroseVERBfromADPhisPRONplaceNOUNinADPtheDETashesNOUN;PUNCThePRONdraggedVERBhimselfPRONtoADPtheDETdoorNOUNandCCONJsetVERBupADPaDETmournfulADJhowlingNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 dogdet
2ancientancientADJDegree=Pos5 dogamod
3househouseNOUNNumber=Sing5 dogcompound
4--PUNCT_3 housepunct
5dogdogNOUNNumber=Sing14 rosensubj
6,,PUNCT_7 infirmpunct
7infirminfirmVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin5 dogparataxis
8andandCCONJ_9 toothlesscc
9toothlesstoothlessADJDegree=Pos5 dogconj
10asasADP_12 mistresscase
11hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 mistressnmod:poss
12mistressmistressNOUNNumber=Sing9 toothlessobl
13,,PUNCT_14 rosepunct
14roseriseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
15fromfromADP_17 placecase
16hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 placenmod:poss
17placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing14 roseobl
18ininADP_20 ashescase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 ashesdet
20ashesashNOUNNumber=Plur14 roseobl
21;;PUNCT_23 draggedpunct
22hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 draggednsubj
23draggeddragVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 roseconj
24himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes23 draggedobj
25totoADP_27 doorcase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 doordet
27doordoorNOUNNumber=Sing23 draggedobl
28andandCCONJ_29 setcc
29setsetVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass23 draggedconj
30upupADP_29 setcompound:prt
31aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art33 howlingdet
32mournfulmournfulADJDegree=Pos33 howlingamod
33howlinghowlingNOUNNumber=Sing29 setobj
34..PUNCT_14 rosepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1infirminfinitivetree rules
2risepastthe ancient house dogmistress's placein the ashesvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ash=Location
3dragpastmistressmistressthe doorvn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to door=Destination
4set upparticiplemistress not said herea mournful howlingvn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient howling=Result

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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