Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 45
Answered the monstrous Teâm, “I would tear the trees down on him.”
Who acts: I · What happens: answer, tear · To what, where: monstrous Teâm, trees · 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 (I), 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 | Answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Teâm | det |
| 3 | monstrous | monstrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Teâm | amod |
| 4 | Teâm | Teâm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Answered | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tear | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 tear | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 tear | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 tear | aux |
| 9 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Answered | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 trees | det |
| 11 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tear | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 tear | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 down | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tear | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the monstrous Teâm | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tear in a quote | would | I | the trees | down property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=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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