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title: All the puppies, all the house-curs, all the sledge-dogs, all the wa… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: All the puppies, all the house-curs, all the sledge-dogs, all the watchdogs were barking, baying, yelping, howling. Who acts: watchdogs. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 53

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All the puppies, all the house-curs, all the sledge-dogs, all the watchdogs were barking, baying, yelping, howling.

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**Who acts:** watchdogs · **What happens:** bark, bay, yelp, howl · **To what, where:** sledge dogs, puppies

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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 (watchdogs), 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:pg66819:22:53
# text = All the puppies, all the house-curs, all the sledge-dogs, all the watchdogs were barking, baying, yelping, howling.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	puppies	puppy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	curs	cur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	sledge	sledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	watchdogs	watchdog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	barking	bark	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	baying	bay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	yelping	yelp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	howling	howl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bark** | past · progressive | all watchdogs | all sledge dogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |
| 2 | **bay** | gerund | all watchdogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **yelp** | gerund | all watchdogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **howl** | gerund | all watchdogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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