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title: “Here is cause enough for barking; plenty of cause for yelping and s… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Here is cause enough for barking; plenty of cause for yelping and snarling. Who acts: cause. 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 86

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“Here is cause enough for barking; plenty of cause for yelping and snarling.

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**Who acts:** cause · **What happens:** be, bark, yelp, snarl

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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 (cause), 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:pg66819:22:86
# text = “Here is cause enough for barking; plenty of cause for yelping and snarling.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	cause	cause	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	barking	bark	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	yelping	yelp	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	snarling	snarl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | here |  | plenty of cause *conj*; cause, enough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bark** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **yelp** *in a quote* | gerund | cause *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **snarl** *in a quote* | gerund | cause *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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