Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 114
When ye keep asking me ‘Who my boy’s father was?’
Who acts: ye, father · What happens: keep, ask, be · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, father), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 keep | mark |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ’ | advcl |
| 4 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 keep | xcomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 asking | iobj |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Who | punct |
| 7 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 asking | obl |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 boy | nmod:poss |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 boy | case |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Who | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Who | cop |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | root | root |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | ye | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | ye not said here | me | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | my boy's father | 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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