Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 117
But great Putúp the whale Who did not know their tongue, Asked what the words might mean?
Who acts: whale, great Putúp · What happens: not know, ask, mean · To what, where: tongue
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whale, great Putúp), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 mean | cc |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Putúp | amod |
| 3 | Putúp | Putúp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 whale | det |
| 5 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Putúp | appos |
| 6 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 know | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 know | advmod |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 whale | acl:relcl |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 know | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Asked | punct |
| 13 | Asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 mean | advcl |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 mean | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 words | det |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 mean | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 mean | aux |
| 18 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | the whale | songs's tongue | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tongue=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | participle | great Putúp not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mean | might | great Putúp | what obj; the words nsubj | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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