The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 60
See what the dogs are barking at, and then run back quickly and tell your tired father.”
Who acts: you, dogs · What happens: see, bark, run back, tell · To what, where: tired father · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 1 See | obj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dogs | det |
| 4 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 barking | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 barking | aux |
| 6 | barking | bark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 barking | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 run | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 run | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 run | advmod |
| 11 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | parataxis |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 run | advmod |
| 13 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 11 run | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tell | cc |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 run | conj |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 father | amod |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | iobj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | what obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bark | present · progressive | the dogs | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | run back | infinitive | then | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | your tired father | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient |
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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