Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 44
O quaint old speech which echoes in our ears!
Who acts: quaint old speech · What happens: echo · To what, where: ears, quaint old speech
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 (quaint old speech), 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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 4 speech | discourse |
| 2 | quaint | quaint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 speech | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 speech | amod |
| 4 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 echoes | nsubj |
| 6 | echoes | echo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 speech | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 ears | case |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ears | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 echoes | obl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 speech | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | echo | present | quaint old speech | our ears | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location |
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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