Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 33
So he said to her while smiling, “Grandmother, are you hungry?
Who acts: Pûjinskwes, you, Micmac · What happens: say, smile, be · To what, where: Micmac, Grandmother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pûjinskwes, you, Micmac), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 smiling | mark |
| 7 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 hungry | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Grandmother | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Grandmother | punct |
| 10 | Grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 smiling | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 smiling | punct |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 hungry | cop |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 hungry | nsubj |
| 14 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | ccomp |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Pûjinskwes | Micmac | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | smile | gerund | you not said here | Grandmother | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Micmac | hungry property | tree rules |
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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