The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 59
“Run out to the turf pile, Kuli,” said her father, “climb up on the very top of it and look around.
Who acts: father · What happens: run out, say, climb up, look around · To what, where: Kuli, top · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (father), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Run | punct |
| 2 | Run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 Run | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 pile | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pile | det |
| 6 | turf | turf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pile | compound |
| 7 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Run | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Kuli | punct |
| 9 | Kuli | Kuli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Run | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Run | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Run | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 climb | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 climb | punct |
| 17 | climb | climb | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | parataxis |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 climb | compound:prt |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 top | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 top | det |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 top | advmod |
| 22 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 climb | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 top | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 look | cc |
| 26 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 climb | conj |
| 27 | around | around | ADV | _ | 26 look | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run out in a quote | infinitive | Kuli | to the turf pile result; out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to pile=Result | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Kuli's father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | climb up in a quote | infinitive | the top of top | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | look around in a quote | infinitive | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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