Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 139

The Wizard cried in Indian tongue: “_Nda Awâni niûna ndelima-- Magahôûnana_,” which means: “My friends, We shall not torture any one (to-day).”

Who acts: Wizard, friends · What happens: cry, mean, not torture · To what, where: Indian tongue, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wizard, friends), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Wizard	det
2	Wizard	Wizard	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cried	nsubj
3	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 tongue	case
5	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tongue	amod
6	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cried	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 Awâni	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 Awâni	punct
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 Awâni	punct
10	Nda	Nda	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Awâni	compound
11	Awâni	Awâni	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cried	parataxis
12	niûna	niûna	X	_	13 ndelima	compound
13	ndelima	ndelima	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Awâni	conj
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 Magahôûnana	punct
15	Magahôûnana	Magahôûnana	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Awâni	conj
16	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 Awâni	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cried	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 cried	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 means	nsubj
20	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cried	parataxis
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 torture	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 friends	punct
23	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 friends	nmod:poss
24	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 torture	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 friends	punct
26	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 torture	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 torture	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 torture	advmod
29	torture	torture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 means	ccomp
30	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 one	det
31	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 torture	obj
32	(	(	PUNCT	_	35 day	punct
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 day	case
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 to	punct
35	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 one	appos
36	)	)	PUNCT	_	35 day	punct
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 torture	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 torture	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the Wizard		Indian tongue	Nda Awâni and niûna ndelima and Magahôûnana parataxis	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mean	present				which nsubj	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not torture in a quote	shall	My friends	any one		We nsubj	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus one=Experiencer

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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 139