The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 56
Perhaps the dogs have scented a bear escaped from an ice-floe; perhaps they see a band of robbers coming up from the shore.
Who acts: dogs, robbers · What happens: scent, escape, see, come up · To what, where: dogs, bear, ice floe, band, shore
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, robbers), 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 | _ | 5 scented | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dogs | det |
| 3 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 scented | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 scented | aux |
| 5 | scented | scent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bear | det |
| 7 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scented | obj |
| 8 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bear | acl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 floe | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 floe | det |
| 11 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 floe | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 ice | punct |
| 13 | floe | floe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 escaped | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 15 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 17 see | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 scented | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 band | det |
| 19 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 robbers | case |
| 21 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 band | nmod |
| 22 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 robbers | acl |
| 23 | up | up | ADV | _ | 22 coming | advmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 shore | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 shore | det |
| 26 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 coming | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scent | present · perfect · passive | the dogs | a bear obj; perhaps property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | escape | participle | a bear not said here | a ice floe | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from floe=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | see | present | dogs = dog | a band of robbers | perhaps property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer band=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | come up | gerund | robbers not said here | the shore | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from shore=Initial_Location |
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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