The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 81
But the beast still tugged at his chain, and all the smaller dogs joined him in a chorus of howling.
Who acts: beast, smaller dogs · What happens: tug, join, chorus · To what, where: beast, chorus, 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 (beast, smaller 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 tugged | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 beast | det |
| 3 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tugged | nsubj |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 tugged | advmod |
| 5 | tugged | tug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 chain | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 chain | nmod:poss |
| 8 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tugged | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 joined | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 joined | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 dogs | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dogs | det |
| 13 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 dogs | amod |
| 14 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 joined | nsubj |
| 15 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tugged | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 joined | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 chorus | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 chorus | det |
| 19 | chorus | chorus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 joined | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 howling | case |
| 21 | howling | howling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chorus | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tugged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tug | past | the beast | still | at beast's chain | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at chain=Theme | |||
| 2 | join | past | all smaller dogs | beast | a chorus of howling | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 3 | chorus | howling | nom chorus «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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