Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 63
“That cannot be,” said the other, “No dogs could run such a distance, Not even in weeks of running.”
Who acts: That, other, dogs · What happens: not be, say, run · To what, where: distance · 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 (That, other, dogs), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 be | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 be | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 be | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 other | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 run | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 run | punct |
| 13 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 dogs | det |
| 14 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 run | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 run | aux |
| 16 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 distance | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 distance | det |
| 19 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 run | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 weeks | punct |
| 21 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 weeks | advmod |
| 22 | even | even | ADV | _ | 24 weeks | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 weeks | case |
| 24 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 run | parataxis |
| 25 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 26 running | mark |
| 26 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 weeks | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 run | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not can in a quote | can | That | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | run in a quote | could | no dogs | such distance | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run in a quote | gerund | no dogs not said here | 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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