Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 16
And then she asked the boy “What is it that your father Uses to pull his sled?”
Who acts: mother, cry · What happens: ask, be, use, pull · To what, where: boy, cry, sled · 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 (mother, cry), 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 | _ | 4 asked | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 asked | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obj |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Uses | punct |
| 8 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 it | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 it | cop |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 Uses | nsubj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 Uses | mark |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Uses | nsubj |
| 14 | Uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 pull | mark |
| 16 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 Uses | xcomp |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sled | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sled | sled | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pull | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 Uses | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Uses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | mother | the boy | then | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | cry | What nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use in a quote | present | cry | your father nsubj | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | pull in a quote | to-infinitive | cry not said here | father's sled | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sled=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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