Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 10
And the sorcerer replied: “I am the Wegaduskʾ;” Which means the Northern Lights, “But tell me who art thou?”
Who acts: sorcerer, Wegaduskʾ, Northern Lights · What happens: reply, be, mean, tell · To what, where: Wegaduskʾ, youth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sorcerer, Wegaduskʾ, Northern Lights), 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 | _ | 4 replied | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sorcerer | det |
| 3 | sorcerer | sorcerer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Wegaduskʾ | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 Wegaduskʾ | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Wegaduskʾ | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Wegaduskʾ | det |
| 10 | Wegaduskʾ | Wegaduskʾ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | parataxis |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 Wegaduskʾ | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Wegaduskʾ | punct |
| 13 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 means | nsubj |
| 14 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Wegaduskʾ | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Lights | det |
| 16 | Northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Lights | amod |
| 17 | Lights | Light | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 tell | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 tell | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 tell | punct |
| 20 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 tell | cc |
| 21 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 means | ccomp |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 tell | iobj |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 art | nsubj |
| 24 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 tell | ccomp |
| 25 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 art | obj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 Wegaduskʾ | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the sorcerer | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the sorcerer = sorcerer | the Wegaduskʾ | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | the Wegaduskʾ | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | the Northern Lights | the youth = youth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=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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