Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 43
This time the Master told Tales of the ancient time In the old giant tongue Once spoken by the gods-- Magic and wonder tales.
Who acts: Master, ancient time · What happens: tell, speak, wonder · To what, where: Tales, old giant tongue · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master, ancient time), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Master | det |
| 4 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 told | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Tales | nmod |
| 11 | In | in | ADP | _ | 15 tongue | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tongue | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tongue | amod |
| 14 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tongue | amod |
| 15 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 time | nmod |
| 16 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 spoken | advmod |
| 17 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 tongue | acl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 gods | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 gods | det |
| 20 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 spoken | obl |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 Magic | punct |
| 22 | Magic | Magic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 gods | appos |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wonder | cc |
| 24 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | conj |
| 25 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 wonder | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the Master | Tales of the ancient time in the old giant tongue | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | participle | the old giant tongue not said here | by the gods; once property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | present | the Master not said here | tales | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell | the ancient time in the old giant tongue | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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