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title: Now he could see quite clearly; soon he could discern what manner of… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. 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 90

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

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

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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), 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:pg66819:22:90
# text = Now he could see quite clearly; soon he could discern what manner of wayfarers those were that had caused the doggish clamor.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	discern	discern	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	13	det	_	_
13	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	wayfarers	wayfarer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	doggish	doggish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	clamor	clamor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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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