The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 86
“Here is cause enough for barking; plenty of cause for yelping and snarling.
Who acts: cause · What happens: be, bark, yelp, snarl
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 (cause), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 enough | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 enough | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 enough | cop |
| 4 | cause | cause | ADV | _ | 5 enough | advmod |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 barking | mark |
| 7 | barking | bark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 enough | advcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 plenty | punct |
| 9 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 enough | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 cause | case |
| 11 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plenty | nmod |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 yelping | mark |
| 13 | yelping | yelp | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 cause | acl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 snarling | cc |
| 15 | snarling | snarl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 yelping | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 enough | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | here | plenty of cause conj; cause, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bark in a quote | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | yelp in a quote | gerund | cause not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | snarl in a quote | gerund | cause 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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