Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 73
Could not hear my songs From another tree; You, who are so clever, Far quicker than I am.
Who acts: You, my · What happens: not hear, be, sing · To what, where: songs, tree
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, my), 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 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 hear | advmod |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 songs | nmod:poss |
| 5 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hear | obj |
| 6 | From | from | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hear | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 clever | punct |
| 10 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 clever | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 clever | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 clever | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 clever | cop |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 clever | advmod |
| 15 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hear | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 quicker | punct |
| 17 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 quicker | advmod |
| 18 | quicker | quick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 clever | conj |
| 19 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 21 am | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 am | nsubj |
| 21 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 quicker | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | could | my songs | another tree | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent song=Topic from tree=Source | ||||
| 2 | is | present | You | who nsubj; clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | You not said here | far property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sing | my | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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