Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 146
“You can do it with ease,” replied _Pilowî wʾskichin_, That is “the stranger man;” “Just put it on your head.”
Who acts: Pilowî wʾskichin, That, you · What happens: reply, be, put · To what, where: stranger man, 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 (Pilowî wʾskichin, That, 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 | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 put | aux |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 ease | case |
| 7 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | parataxis |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 wʾskichin | punct |
| 12 | Pilowî | Pilowî | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 wʾskichin | compound |
| 13 | wʾskichin | wʾskichin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 wʾskichin | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 man | punct |
| 16 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 man | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 man | cop |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 man | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 man | compound |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 put | punct |
| 25 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 26 put | advmod |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 put | obj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 head | case |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 head | nmod:poss |
| 30 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 put | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Pilowî wʾskichin | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | That | the stranger man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | house | your head | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on head=Destination |
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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