Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 9
“If you dare take me by My horns,” the fiend replied, “And scrape them with your knife, And lay the scrapings by, Then you may have your wish.”
Who acts: you, fiend, your · What happens: take, reply, scrape, lay, have, wish · To what, where: fiend, horns, scrapings, wish · 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, fiend, your), 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 | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 4 | dare | dare | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 take | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 horns | case |
| 8 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 horns | nmod:poss |
| 9 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 take | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fiend | det |
| 13 | fiend | fiend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | nsubj |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 scrape | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 scrape | punct |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 scrape | cc |
| 18 | scrape | scrape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 replied | ccomp |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 scrape | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 knife | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 knife | nmod:poss |
| 22 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 scrape | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lay | punct |
| 24 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lay | cc |
| 25 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 take | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 scrapings | det |
| 27 | scrapings | scraping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 lay | obj |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 lay | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 have | punct |
| 30 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 have | advmod |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 have | nsubj |
| 32 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 have | aux |
| 33 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 take | conj |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 wish | nmod:poss |
| 35 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 have | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | dare | you | the fiend = fiend | by My horns | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the fiend | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | scrape in a quote | infinitive | horns = horn | with your knife | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient with knife=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | lay in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the scrapings | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scraping=Result | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | may | you | your wish | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient | |||
| 6 | wish in a quote | your | nom wish «feeling 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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