Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 145
“But oh and alack,” he cried, “I could never carry this house As you do, on your head.”
Who acts: other, you · What happens: cry, not carry, do · To what, where: alack, house, head · 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 (other, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 alack | cc |
| 3 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 alack | discourse |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 alack | cc |
| 5 | alack | alack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 alack | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 alack | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 carry | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 carry | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 carry | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 carry | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 carry | advmod |
| 15 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | conj |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 house | det |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carry | obj |
| 18 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 carry | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 head | punct |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 head | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carry | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | other | alack | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not carry in a quote | could | other | this house | your head | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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