Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 4
“I will give you what you want,” Answered the Wîwilmekw, “If you are not afraid.”
Who acts: Wîwilmekw, you · What happens: give, want, answer, not be · To what, where: you · 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 (Wîwilmekw, you), 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 | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Answered | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 want | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 want | nsubj |
| 8 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 11 | Answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Wîwilmekw | det |
| 13 | Wîwilmekw | Wîwilmekw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Answered | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 afraid | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 afraid | punct |
| 16 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 afraid | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 afraid | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 afraid | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 afraid | advmod |
| 20 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Wîwilmekw | amod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Wîwilmekw | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Wîwilmekw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | future | the Wîwilmekw = wîwilmekw | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want in a quote | present | you | what obj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the Wîwilmekw | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | afraid property | tree rules |
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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