Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 22

“Ah--hem!” he said, “who knows But the weather may take a turn To a thaw, and give us a night Which _may_ be rather warm!

Who acts: Wolverine, weather, night · What happens: say, know, take, give, be · To what, where: turn, thaw, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolverine, weather, night), 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 hem	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 hem	discourse
3	--	--	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	hem	hem	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 hem	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 hem	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knows	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 knows	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 knows	nsubj
12	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
13	But	but	CCONJ	_	17 take	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 weather	det
15	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	nsubj
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 take	aux
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 knows	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 turn	det
19	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obj
20	To	to	ADP	_	22 thaw	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 thaw	det
22	thaw	thaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 give	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 give	cc
25	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
26	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 give	iobj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 night	det
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	obl:unmarked
29	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 warm	nsubj
30	_	_	PUNCT	_	29 Which	punct
31	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 warm	aux
32	_	_	PUNCT	_	35 warm	punct
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 warm	cop
34	rather	rather	ADV	_	35 warm	advmod
35	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 night	acl:relcl
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	Wolverine					hem ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know in a quote	present						who nsubj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	take in a quote	may	the weather	a turn		a thaw			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent turn=Theme to thaw=Destination
4	give in a quote	infinitive			us		night		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
5	is in a quote	may	a night					warm property	tree rules

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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 22