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title: But the beast still tugged at his chain, and all the smaller dogs jo… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: But the beast still tugged at his chain, and all the smaller dogs joined him in a chorus of howling. Who acts: beast, smaller dogs. 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 81

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But the beast still tugged at his chain, and all the smaller dogs joined him in a chorus of howling.

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**Who acts:** beast, smaller dogs · **What happens:** tug, join, chorus · **To what, where:** beast, chorus, 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 (beast, smaller dogs), 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:pg66819:22:81
# text = But the beast still tugged at his chain, and all the smaller dogs joined him in a chorus of howling.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	tugged	tug	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	chorus	chorus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	howling	howling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tug** | past | the beast |  |  |  | still | at beast's chain | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at chain=Theme |
| 2 | **join** | past | all smaller dogs | beast |  | a chorus of howling |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 3 | **chorus** |  |  | howling |  |  |  |  | nom chorus «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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