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title: “Run out to the turf pile, Kuli,” said her father, “climb up on the… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Run out to the turf pile, Kuli,” said her father, “climb up on the very top of it and look around. Who acts: father. 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 59

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“Run out to the turf pile, Kuli,” said her father, “climb up on the very top of it and look around.

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**Who acts:** father · **What happens:** run out, say, climb up, look around · **To what, where:** Kuli, top · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (father), 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:pg66819:22:59
# text = “Run out to the turf pile, Kuli,” said her father, “climb up on the very top of it and look around.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
3	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	turf	turf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Kuli	Kuli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	climb	climb	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
27	around	around	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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