The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 87
One stranger comes by sea, another comes by land, and the poor beasts have scented them both while yet they are far away.”
Who acts: One stranger, another, dogs · What happens: come, scent, be · To what, where: poor beasts
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 (One stranger, another, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 stranger | nummod |
| 2 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 sea | case |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 comes | punct |
| 7 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 8 comes | nsubj |
| 8 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 comes | parataxis |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 land | case |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 comes | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 scented | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 scented | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 beasts | det |
| 14 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 beasts | amod |
| 15 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 scented | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 scented | aux |
| 17 | scented | scent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 comes | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 scented | obj |
| 19 | both | both | ADV | _ | 17 scented | advmod |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 away | mark |
| 21 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 25 away | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 away | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 away | cop |
| 24 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 away | advmod |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 scented | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | One stranger | by sea | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sea=Location | ||||
| 2 | come | present | another | by land | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by land=Location | ||||
| 3 | scent | present · perfect · passive | the poor beasts | dogs = dog obj; both property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | dogs = dog | away, far property | tree rules |
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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