Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 109
Bring forth thine old uncle, I want him.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: bring, want · To what, where: old uncle, uncle
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 1 Bring | advmod |
| 3 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 uncle | amod |
| 5 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bring | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 want | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 want | nsubj |
| 8 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bring | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 want | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | imperative | you not said here | thine old uncle | forth property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument uncle=Destination | |||
| 2 | want | present | I | uncle | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=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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