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title: Run out to the road and see what manner of man he is.” — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Run out to the road and see what manner of man he is.” Who acts: you, man. 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 46

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Run out to the road and see what manner of man he is.”

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**Who acts:** you, man · **What happens:** run out, see, be · **To what, where:** manner

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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 (you, man), 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:pg66819:22:46
# text = Run out to the road and see what manner of man he is.”
1	Run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	9	det	_	_
9	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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