Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 29
Then said the conjurer; “Her dance is over now.”
Who acts: dance, powder · What happens: say, be, dance · To what, where: conjurer · 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 (dance, powder), 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 | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 conjurer | det |
| 4 | conjurer | conjurer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 over | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 over | punct |
| 7 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dance | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 over | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 over | cop |
| 10 | over | over | ADV | _ | 2 said | ccomp |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 over | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the conjurer | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent conjurer=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | powder's dance | now | over property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | dance in a quote | powder | nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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