The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 53
All the puppies, all the house-curs, all the sledge-dogs, all the watchdogs were barking, baying, yelping, howling.
Who acts: watchdogs · What happens: bark, bay, yelp, howl · To what, where: sledge dogs, puppies
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 (watchdogs), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 puppies | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 puppies | det |
| 3 | puppies | puppy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 curs | punct |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 curs | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 curs | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 curs | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 house | punct |
| 9 | curs | cur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 puppies | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dogs | punct |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 dogs | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dogs | det |
| 13 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dogs | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 sledge | punct |
| 15 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 curs | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 barking | punct |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 watchdogs | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 watchdogs | det |
| 19 | watchdogs | watchdog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 barking | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 barking | aux |
| 21 | barking | bark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 dogs | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 baying | punct |
| 23 | baying | bay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 barking | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 yelping | punct |
| 25 | yelping | yelp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 barking | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 howling | punct |
| 27 | howling | howl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 barking | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 puppies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bark | past · progressive | all watchdogs | all sledge dogs not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bay | gerund | all watchdogs not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | yelp | gerund | all watchdogs not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | howl | gerund | all watchdogs not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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