Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 126
Stopping a little To think of the wonder, She heard a whisper, The voice of the Rain: “Stay, my daughter!”
Who acts: NIPON · What happens: stop, think, hear, stay · To what, where: little, whisper, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (NIPON), 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 | Stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 heard | advcl |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Stopping | obj |
| 4 | To | to | PART | _ | 5 think | mark |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Stopping | advcl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wonder | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wonder | det |
| 8 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 think | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stopping | punct |
| 10 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 whisper | det |
| 13 | whisper | whisper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 voice | punct |
| 15 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 voice | det |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 whisper | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Rain | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Rain | det |
| 19 | Rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 voice | nmod |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 Stay | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Stay | punct |
| 22 | Stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 heard | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 daughter | punct |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 25 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Stay | obl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 Stay | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | gerund | NIPON not said here | a little | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality little=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | NIPON not said here | of the wonder | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | NIPON | a whisper and the voice of the Rain | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stay in a quote | infinitive | my daughter | vn exist-47.1 «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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