Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 64
“Not I,” replied the father, and at once let fall the flap Before his wigwam door.
Who acts: I · What happens: reply, let, fall · To what, where: father, flap
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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 I | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 I | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 I | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 father | det |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 let | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 let | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 once | case |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 let | obl |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 replied | conj |
| 14 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 let | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 flap | det |
| 16 | flap | flap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fall | obj |
| 17 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 20 door | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 door | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 door | compound |
| 20 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fall | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | I | the father | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent father=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let | participle | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fall | infinitive | I not said here | the flap | before wizard's wigwam door | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient flap=Result |
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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