Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 116
But, being asked what he Would do if chased by Man, Miʿko at once exclaimed: “I would climb up a tree As fast as legs could run.”
Who acts: Miʿko, I, legs · What happens: ask, do, chase, exclaim, climb up, run · To what, where: tree · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miʿko, I, legs), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 asked | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 asked | aux:pass |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 do | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 7 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | xcomp |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 chased | mark |
| 10 | chased | chase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 do | advcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Man | case |
| 12 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 chased | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Miʿko | punct |
| 14 | Miʿko | Miʿko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Man | conj |
| 15 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 17 exclaimed | mark |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 exclaimed | advmod |
| 17 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 chased | advcl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 climb | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 climb | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 climb | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 climb | aux |
| 22 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 climb | compound:prt |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 tree | det |
| 25 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 climb | obj |
| 26 | As | as | ADV | _ | 27 fast | advmod |
| 27 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 climb | advmod |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 run | mark |
| 29 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 run | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 run | aux |
| 31 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 fast | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 climb | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 climb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund · passive | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | would | Miʿko | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | chase a condition, not said to happen | participle | Miʿko not said here | by Man and Miʿko | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by man=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | exclaim speech: express | past | Miʿko not said here | once property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | climb up in a quote | would | I | a tree | fast property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | |||
| 6 | run in a quote | could | legs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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