Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 15
“Keep that till you return, Then give it to the girl Who made the trouble--she Needs medicine as well.”
Who acts: you, girl · What happens: keep, return, give, make, need · To what, where: that, drink, girl, trouble, medicine
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 (you, girl), 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 | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 2 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Keep | obj |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 return | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 return | nsubj |
| 6 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Keep | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 8 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 give | advmod |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Keep | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 give | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 girl | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obl |
| 14 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 girl | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 trouble | det |
| 17 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 Needs | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 Needs | nsubj |
| 20 | Needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Keep | advcl |
| 21 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Needs | obj |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 20 Needs | advmod |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 as | fixed |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | imperative | you not said here | that | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return in a quote | present | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | drink | the girl | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to girl=Recipient | ||
| 4 | make in a quote | past | the girl | the trouble | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Product | ||||
| 5 | need in a quote | present | girl | medicine | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot medicine=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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