Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 89
Indeed, in the latter country, I have been asked if I would have a fairy tale chanted or repeated as prose!
Who acts: I · What happens: ask, have, chant, repeat · To what, where: I, latter country, fairy tale
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 11 asked | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 country | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 country | det |
| 5 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 country | amod |
| 6 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 country | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | aux:pass |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | aux |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tale | det |
| 17 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tale | compound |
| 18 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 19 | chanted | chant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 tale | acl |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 repeated | cc |
| 21 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 chanted | conj |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 prose | case |
| 23 | prose | prose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 repeated | obl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present · perfect · passive | I | the latter country | indeed property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | would | I | a fairy tale | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Patient | ||||
| 3 | chant | participle | a fairy tale not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | repeat | participle | as prose | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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: «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Project Gutenberg book 78673 (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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