Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 40
“O fairest of small birds!” said merry Mĭpis; “Who are you, and what is your name?”
Who acts: fairest · What happens: say, be · To what, where: you, name · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairest), 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 | _ | 3 fairest | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 fairest | discourse |
| 3 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 birds | case |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 birds | amod |
| 6 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fairest | obl |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 fairest | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fairest | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Mĭpis | amod |
| 11 | Mĭpis | Mĭpis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 you | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 you | punct |
| 14 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 you | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 you | cop |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 said | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 name | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 name | cc |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 name | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 name | cop |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 name | nmod:poss |
| 22 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | parataxis |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 name | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | fairest of small birds | merry Mĭpis nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | you | Who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | your name | what nsubj; your nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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