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title: The ancient house-dog, infirm and toothless as his mistress, rose fr… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The ancient house-dog, infirm and toothless as his mistress, rose from his place in the ashes; he dragged himself to the door and set up a mournful howling. Who acts: ancient house dog, mistress. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs, with its d
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 28

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The ancient house-dog, infirm and toothless as his mistress, rose from his place in the ashes; he dragged himself to the door and set up a mournful howling.

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**Who acts:** ancient house dog, mistress · **What happens:** infirm, rise, drag, set up · **To what, where:** place, mistress, door, mournful howling

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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 (ancient house dog, mistress), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:22:28
# text = The ancient house-dog, infirm and toothless as his mistress, rose from his place in the ashes; he dragged himself to the door and set up a mournful howling.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	infirm	infirm	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	toothless	toothless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	mournful	mournful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	howling	howling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **infirm** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise** | past | the ancient house dog |  |  | mistress's place |  | in the ashes | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ash=Location |
| 3 | **drag** | past | mistress | mistress |  | the door |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to door=Destination |
| 4 | **set up** | participle | mistress *not said here* | a mournful howling |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient howling=Result |

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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.

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**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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