The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 90

Now he could see quite clearly; soon he could discern what manner of wayfarers those were that had caused the doggish clamor.

Who acts: beast · What happens: see, discern, cause · To what, where: manner, those

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), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 see	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 clearly	advmod
6	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 discern	punct
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 discern	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 discern	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 discern	aux
11	discern	discern	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 see	conj
12	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	13 manner	det
13	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 discern	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 wayfarers	case
15	wayfarers	wayfarer	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 manner	nmod
16	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 caused	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 caused	aux:pass
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 caused	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 caused	aux
20	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 discern	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 clamor	det
22	doggish	doggish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 clamor	amod
23	clamor	clamor	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 caused	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	could	beast		now	clearly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	discern	could	beast	what manner of wayfarers		soon property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer manner=Stimulus
3	cause	past · perfect · passive		those		that nsubj; the doggish clamor obj	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Theme clamor=Eventuality

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 90

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 90