Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 64
One bright fresh morning, Lively Sexkâtû The flying squirrel Climbed the great birch-tree, And there he found Lappilatwan From a branch hanging, And he thus spoke; “Tell me how long Have you dwelt here?”
Who acts: Lively Sexkâtû, Sexkâtû, branch, you · What happens: fly, climb, find, hang, speak, tell · To what, where: great birch tree, Lappilatwan, branch, me · 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 (Lively Sexkâtû, Sexkâtû, branch, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 morning | nummod |
| 2 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 3 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Climbed | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sexkâtû | punct |
| 6 | Lively | lively | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Sexkâtû | amod |
| 7 | Sexkâtû | Sexkâtû | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Climbed | nsubj |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 squirrel | det |
| 9 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 squirrel | amod |
| 10 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Sexkâtû | appos |
| 11 | Climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tree | amod |
| 14 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tree | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 birch | punct |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Climbed | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 found | punct |
| 18 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 found | cc |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 found | expl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 found | nsubj |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Climbed | parataxis |
| 22 | Lappilatwan | Lappilatwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 found | obj |
| 23 | From | from | ADP | _ | 25 branch | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 branch | det |
| 25 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 found | obl |
| 26 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 branch | acl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 spoke | punct |
| 28 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 spoke | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 spoke | nsubj |
| 30 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 31 spoke | advmod |
| 31 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 found | conj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 Tell | punct |
| 33 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Tell | punct |
| 34 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Climbed | parataxis |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 Tell | iobj |
| 36 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 long | advmod |
| 37 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 40 dwelt | advmod |
| 38 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 dwelt | aux |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 dwelt | nsubj |
| 40 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 Tell | ccomp |
| 41 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 dwelt | advmod |
| 42 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 40 dwelt | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | climb | past | Lively Sexkâtû | the great birch tree | morning | tree rules | |||
| 3 | find | past | Sexkâtû | Lappilatwan | a branch; there | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lappilatwan=Theme from branch=Source | |||
| 4 | hang | gerund | a branch not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | past | Sexkâtû | thus property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | dwell in a quote | present · perfect | you | here | long property | 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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