Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 90
Then the Pʾmûla told the man: “If thou wilt let me go, I’ll give to thee another charm which aye will bring thee luck.”
Who acts: Pʾmûla, thou, aye · What happens: tell, let, go, give, bring · To what, where: man, Pʾmûla, charm, thee · 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 (Pʾmûla, thou, aye), 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 | 4 told | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Pʾmûla | det |
| 3 | Pʾmûla | Pʾmûla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | iobj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 9 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 let | mark |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 let | nsubj |
| 11 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 12 let | aux |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | ccomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 give | nsubj |
| 17 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 give | aux |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 thee | case |
| 20 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 give | obl |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 charm | det |
| 22 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 23 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 24 aye | det |
| 24 | aye | aye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bring | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 bring | aux |
| 26 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 charm | acl:relcl |
| 27 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 bring | obj |
| 28 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bring | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the Pʾmûla | the man | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | let a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | thou | the Pʾmûla = pʾmûla | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | the Pʾmûla = pʾmûla not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | give in a quote | future | the Pʾmûla = pʾmûla | another charm | thee | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent charm=Theme to thou=Recipient | |||
| 5 | bring in a quote | future | which aye | thee | luck obj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent thou=Destination luck=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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