Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 9
She answered, “I have another, A husband who suits me better Than him whom first I married.
Who acts: wife, husband · What happens: answer, have, suit, marry · To what, where: another, wife · 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 (wife, husband), 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 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 “ | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 “ | ccomp |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 have | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 9 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 husband | det |
| 10 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 suits | nsubj |
| 12 | suits | suit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 husband | acl:relcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 suits | obj |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 suits | xcomp |
| 15 | Than | than | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 better | obl |
| 17 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 married | obj |
| 18 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 married | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 married | nsubj |
| 20 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 better | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | wife | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | wife | another | a husband obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | suit in a quote | present | a husband | wife | good property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | marry in a quote | past | wife | whom obj; first property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |
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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