Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 6
He spoke in a strange language, She could not understand him.
Who acts: man, woman · What happens: speak, not understand · To what, where: strange language, man · 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 (man, woman), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 language | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 language | det |
| 5 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 language | amod |
| 6 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spoke | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 understand | punct |
| 8 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 understand | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 understand | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 understand | advmod |
| 11 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 spoke | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 understand | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | man | a strange language | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not understand | could | woman | man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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