Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 25

I think I have heard my grandmother say: That a color such as I see, Of red in the sky, means something-- I forget what it is--but it may be A change for the better--or worse!

Who acts: I, grandmother, sky · What happens: think, hear, say, see, mean, forget · To what, where: color, grandmother, red, something, change · 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 (I, grandmother, sky), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	aux
5	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 think	ccomp
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 grandmother	nmod:poss
7	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obj
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 heard	xcomp
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 color	punct
10	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 color	det
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 color	det
12	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 think	obl
13	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 color	amod
14	as	as	ADP	_	13 such	fixed
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 see	nsubj
16	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 color	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 red	punct
18	Of	of	ADP	_	19 red	case
19	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 see	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 sky	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sky	det
22	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 red	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 means	punct
24	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 color	parataxis
25	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 means	obj
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 forget	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 forget	nsubj
28	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 means	conj
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 forget	ccomp
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 what	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 what	cop
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 change	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 change	cc
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 change	nsubj
35	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 change	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 change	cop
37	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 change	det
38	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 color	conj
39	for	for	ADP	_	41 better	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 better	det
41	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 change	nmod
42	--	--	PUNCT	_	44 worse	punct
43	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 worse	cc
44	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 think	parataxis
45	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I	that color but a change		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hear	present · perfect	I	my grandmother		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	my grandmother not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	see	present	I	red in the sky		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer red=Stimulus
5	mean	present		something		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic
6	forget	present	I			tree rules
7	is a	present	sky			tree rules
8	is a	may	sky	a change	for the better	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 25