Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 52
She asked once more: “My son, pray tell what is it that you do.”
Who acts: friend, son, you · What happens: ask, pray, tell, be, do · To what, where: wood · 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 (friend, son, you), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 more | advmod |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 asked | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 son | punct |
| 7 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tell | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pray | punct |
| 10 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 son | acl:relcl |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asked | ccomp |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 it | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 it | cop |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | ccomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | friend | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | pray in a quote | present | My son not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | My son | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | wood | what nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do in a quote | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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