Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 133
“I call on the Wîwilmekw, I call on the Terrible One, On the One with the Horns, I dare him to appear!”
Who acts: brother · What happens: call, dare, appear · To what, where: Wîwilmekw, One, Terrible, song · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (brother), 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 | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 call | nsubj |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Wîwilmekw | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Wîwilmekw | det |
| 6 | Wîwilmekw | Wîwilmekw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 call | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 call | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 call | nsubj |
| 9 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 call | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 Terrible | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Terrible | det |
| 12 | Terrible | Terrible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 call | obl |
| 13 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 Terrible | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 One | punct |
| 15 | On | on | ADP | _ | 17 One | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 One | det |
| 17 | One | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 call | xcomp |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 Horns | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Horns | det |
| 20 | Horns | Horn | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 One | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dare | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 dare | nsubj |
| 23 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 call | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 dare | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 appear | mark |
| 26 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 dare | xcomp |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | present | brother | the Wîwilmekw | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | call in a quote | present | brother | the One with the Horns | the Terrible | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | dare in a quote | present | brother | song | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | appear in a quote | to-infinitive | brother not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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