Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 71

Lappilatwan Answered him quietly: “_Noses_, ‘my grandchild:’ I cannot go hence.

Who acts: Lappilatwan · What happens: answer, not go · To what, where: _ Noses, Sexkâtû · 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 (Lappilatwan), 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	Lappilatwan	Lappilatwan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Answered	nsubj
2	Answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Answered	obj
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 Answered	advmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Noses	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 Noses	punct
7	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Noses	compound
8	Noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Answered	obl
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 Noses	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grandchild	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 grandchild	punct
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 grandchild	nmod:poss
13	grandchild	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Noses	conj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
15	’	'	SYM	_	19 go	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 go	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 go	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 go	advmod
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Answered	conj
20	hence	hence	ADV	_	19 go	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Lappilatwan	_ Noses and my grandchild	Sexkâtû			quietly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
2	not go in a quote	can	Lappilatwan					hence property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 71