Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 66
“But tell me truly, Lappilatwan, How long will you Dwell in this birch-tree?”
Who acts: you · What happens: tell, dwell · To what, where: Lappilatwan, Sexkâtû, birch tree · 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 (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 | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 tell | cc |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 3 tell | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Lappilatwan | punct |
| 7 | Lappilatwan | Lappilatwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Dwell | punct |
| 9 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 long | advmod |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 Dwell | advmod |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 Dwell | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 Dwell | nsubj |
| 13 | Dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tell | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 tree | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 tree | det |
| 16 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tree | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 birch | punct |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Dwell | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Lappilatwan | Sexkâtû | truly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||
| 2 | dwell in a quote | future | you | this birch tree | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location |
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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