Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 133
And when the stranger in wonder Asked of them, “What are you doing?”
Who acts: stranger, you · What happens: ask, do · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (stranger, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Asked | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 Asked | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stranger | det |
| 4 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Asked | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 wonder | case |
| 6 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stranger | nmod |
| 7 | Asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Asked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 doing | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 doing | punct |
| 12 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 doing | obj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 doing | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 doing | nsubj |
| 15 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 Asked | parataxis |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 doing | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | participle | the stranger in wonder | of Twas = twa | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present · progressive | you | What obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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