Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 77
Ere long the news spread, Soon all the squirrels Said: “_Sexkâtûwuk Kʾputwusin_,” “Let us take council.”
Who acts: news, squirrels, Sexkâtûwuk, us · What happens: spread, say, let, take · To what, where: us, council · 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 (news, squirrels, Sexkâtûwuk, us), 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 | Ere | ere | ADV | _ | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 spread | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 news | det |
| 4 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spread | nsubj |
| 5 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Said | punct |
| 7 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 Said | advmod |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 squirrels | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 squirrels | det |
| 10 | squirrels | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Said | nsubj |
| 11 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spread | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 Let | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Let | punct |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 Sexkâtûwuk | punct |
| 15 | Sexkâtûwuk | Sexkâtûwuk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Let | nsubj |
| 16 | Kʾputwusin | Kʾputwusin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Sexkâtûwuk | flat |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 Sexkâtûwuk | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Sexkâtûwuk | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Sexkâtûwuk | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Let | punct |
| 21 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Said | ccomp |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 Let | obj |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 Let | xcomp |
| 24 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 take | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 Let | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | the news | long property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | all squirrels | soon property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | Sexkâtûwuk | us | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | council | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=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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