Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 68
And he said to them: “Lo, I am here, And when you feel the ground Trembling again as to-day, Then know that I have returned.”
Who acts: boldest, Indians · What happens: say, be, feel, tremble, know, return · To what, where: Indians, ground · 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 (boldest, Indians), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 here | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 here | punct |
| 8 | Lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 12 here | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Lo | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 here | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 here | cop |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 know | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 know | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 feel | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 feel | nsubj |
| 17 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 know | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ground | det |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 feel | obj |
| 20 | Trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 feel | advcl |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 Trembling | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 25 day | case |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 as | fixed |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 as | punct |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Trembling | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 feel | punct |
| 27 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 know | advmod |
| 28 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 returned | mark |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 returned | nsubj |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 returned | aux |
| 32 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 know | ccomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 know | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | boldest = bold | Indians = indian | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | boldest = bold | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feel in a quote | present | Indians = indian | the ground | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tremble in a quote | gerund | Indians = indian not said here | again; day | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | know in a quote | infinitive | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | return in a quote | present · perfect | boldest = bold | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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