The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 46
Run out to the road and see what manner of man he is.”
Who acts: you, man · What happens: run out, see, be · To what, where: manner
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 (you, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADV | _ | 1 Run | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 road | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 road | det |
| 5 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Run | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 see | cc |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Run | conj |
| 8 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 9 manner | det |
| 9 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 man | case |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 manner | nmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 is | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 manner | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Run | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run out | imperative | you not said here | to the road result; out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to road=Result | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | you not said here | what manner of man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer manner=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | be | present | man | what manner of man not said here | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot manner=Theme |
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.
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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