Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 14
Now you may hear what happened To several of these seekers, Even as I heard the tales From a Passamaquoddy _Sénap_.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: hear, happen · To what, where: several, tales, Passamaquoddy Sénap · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 hear | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hear | aux |
| 4 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hear | ccomp |
| 7 | To | to | ADP | _ | 8 several | case |
| 8 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 happened | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 seekers | case |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 seekers | det |
| 11 | seekers | seeker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 several | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 heard | punct |
| 13 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 16 heard | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 heard | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 heard | nsubj |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hear | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tales | det |
| 18 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 heard | obj |
| 19 | From | from | ADP | _ | 23 Sénap | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 Sénap | det |
| 21 | Passamaquoddy | Passamaquoddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Sénap | compound |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 Passamaquoddy | punct |
| 23 | Sénap | Sénap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 heard | obl |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 heard | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | may | you | now | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | happen | past | several of this seekers | what nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | I | the tales | a Passamaquoddy Sénap | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent tale=Topic from sénap=Source |
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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