Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 122
The Beaver being asked What he would do, replied That he would seek a stream Ere he would face mankind.
Who acts: Beaver, That · What happens: ask, do, reply, seek, face · To what, where: Beaver, stream, mankind · 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 (Beaver, That), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Beaver | det |
| 2 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 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 | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | parataxis |
| 11 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 seek | nsubj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seek | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 seek | aux |
| 14 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 stream | det |
| 16 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seek | obj |
| 17 | Ere | Ere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 stream | appos |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 face | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 face | aux |
| 20 | face | face | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 stream | acl:relcl |
| 21 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 face | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund · passive | the Beaver | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | would | Beaver | What obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | seek | would | That | a stream | Beaver nsubj | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Theme | |||
| 5 | face | would | Beaver | mankind | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent mankind=Destination |
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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