Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 52
Then he asked the Great White Bear: “And thou, Kʾchî Mūʾūin!
Who acts: squirrel · What happens: ask · To what, where: Great White Bear
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 (squirrel), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 asked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Bear | det |
| 5 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Bear | amod |
| 6 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Bear | amod |
| 7 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 thou | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 thou | punct |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thou | cc |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Kʾchî | punct |
| 13 | Kʾchî | Kʾchî | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 thou | conj |
| 14 | Mūʾūin | Mūʾūin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Kʾchî | flat |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | squirrel | the Great White Bear | then | thou Kʾchî ccomp | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bear=Recipient |
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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