Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 119
Calling then Kchi Mūs, Big Moose, the Master said: “But say what would’st thou do If thou should’st meet with Man?”
Who acts: Master, thou · What happens: call, say, do, meet · To what, where: would’st · 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 (Master, thou), 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 | Calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Calling | advmod |
| 3 | Kchi | Kchi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Calling | xcomp |
| 4 | Mūs | Mūs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Kchi | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Moose | punct |
| 6 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Moose | flat |
| 7 | Moose | Moose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Kchi | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Calling | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Master | det |
| 10 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 14 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 say | cc |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 do | obj |
| 17 | would’st | would'st | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 do | obl |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 do | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | ccomp |
| 20 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 meet | mark |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 meet | nsubj |
| 22 | should’st | should' | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 meet | amod |
| 23 | meet | meet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 do | xcomp |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 Man | case |
| 25 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 meet | nmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | gerund | the Master not said here | then | Kchi xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the Master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present | thou | would’st | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | meet a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | thou | with Man | 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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