Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 62
“But remember,” said the Fox, “While we are in the water Thou must keep thine eyes fast shut.
Who acts: Fox, we, Thou · What happens: remember, say, be, keep · To what, where: water, eyes · 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 (Fox, we, Thou), 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 | _ | 3 remember | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 remember | cc |
| 3 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Fox | det |
| 8 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 keep | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 keep | punct |
| 11 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 water | mark |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 water | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 water | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keep | advcl |
| 17 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 keep | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 keep | aux |
| 19 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 20 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 keep | obj |
| 22 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 keep | advmod |
| 23 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 keep | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember in a quote | infinitive | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | we | the water | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | keep in a quote | must | Thou | thine eyes | fast, shut property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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