Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 72
If I should do so Birds and the insects Could not hear me call.
Who acts: I, Birds, me · What happens: do, not hear, call · To what, where: 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 (I, Birds, me), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 hear | advcl |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 hear | advmod |
| 6 | Birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hear | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 insects | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 insects | det |
| 9 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Birds | conj |
| 10 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 hear | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 hear | advmod |
| 12 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 hear | obj |
| 14 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 hear | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen | should | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not hear | could | Birds and the insects | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call | infinitive | me not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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