The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 32
He was old and fat and lazy, and the noise of the dogs awakened him from pleasant reveries.
Who acts: keeper, noise, dogs · What happens: be, awaken, noise · To what, where: keeper, pleasant reveries
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 (keeper, noise, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 old | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 old | cop |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fat | cc |
| 5 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 old | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lazy | cc |
| 7 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 old | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 awakened | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 awakened | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 noise | det |
| 11 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 awakened | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 dogs | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dogs | det |
| 14 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 noise | nmod |
| 15 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 old | parataxis |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 awakened | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 reveries | case |
| 18 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 reveries | amod |
| 19 | reveries | reverie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 awakened | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | keeper | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | keeper not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | keeper not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | awaken | past | the noise of the dogs | keeper | pleasant reveries | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | |||
| 5 | noise | the dogs | 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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