Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 60
Then spake the father: “This shall cease; I know a way to save The foolish lad.”
Who acts: you, This, I · What happens: speak, cease, know, save · To what, where: father, way, foolish lad · 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 (you, This, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 spake | advmod |
| 2 | spake | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 father | det |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spake | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 cease | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cease | punct |
| 7 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 cease | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 cease | aux |
| 9 | cease | cease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 spake | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cease | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 way | det |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 know | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 save | mark |
| 16 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 way | acl |
| 17 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lad | det |
| 18 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lad | amod |
| 19 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 save | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the father | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cease in a quote | shall | This | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | I | a way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | save in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | the foolish lad | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=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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