Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 76
His son departed And when he came to the mighty Whirlwind Said: “Give me the Leaf!
Who acts: son · What happens: depart, come, say, give · To what, where: mighty Whirlwind, Leaf, son · 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 (son), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 departed | nsubj |
| 3 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Said | cc |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 came | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Said | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Whirlwind | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Whirlwind | det |
| 10 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Whirlwind | amod |
| 11 | Whirlwind | Whirlwind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 12 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 departed | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Give | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Give | punct |
| 15 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Said | ccomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 Give | iobj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Leaf | det |
| 18 | Leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Give | obj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 departed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | past | LEAF's son | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | son | the mighty Whirlwind | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to whirlwind=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | LEAF's son not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | give in a quote | infinitive | the Leaf | LEAF's son = son | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient leaf=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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