Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 61
“Hold to my tail” said the Fox, “Be of good faith, my brother, We soon shall gain the shore.”
Who acts: you, Fox, We · What happens: hold, say, be, gain · To what, where: shore · 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 (you, Fox, We), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hold | punct |
| 2 | Hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 tail | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tail | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hold | obl |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hold | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Hold | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Fox | det |
| 9 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 faith | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 faith | punct |
| 12 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 faith | cop |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 faith | case |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 faith | amod |
| 15 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hold | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brother | punct |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 faith | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gain | punct |
| 20 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 gain | nsubj |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 gain | advmod |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 gain | aux |
| 23 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Hold | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 shore | det |
| 25 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gain | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hold | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold in a quote | imperative | you not said here | to my tail | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | infinitive | of good faith and my brother; my brother conj | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | gain in a quote | shall | We | the shore | soon property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shore=Theme |
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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