Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 62
He answered, “If my Lord Will give me a medicine Which will cure me of every ill, I shall be well content.”
Who acts: death, Lord, medicine · What happens: answer, give, cure, be · To what, where: medicine, death, well content · 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 (death, Lord, medicine), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 5 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 give | mark |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 give | nsubj |
| 8 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 give | aux |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 answered | ccomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 medicine | det |
| 12 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 13 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 cure | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 cure | aux |
| 15 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 medicine | acl:relcl |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 cure | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 ill | case |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 ill | det |
| 19 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cure | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 content | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 content | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 content | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 content | cop |
| 24 | well | well | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 content | amod |
| 25 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 content | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | death | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | my Lord | a medicine | death | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient medicine=Theme | |||
| 3 | cure in a quote | future | a medicine | death | of every ill | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer i=Source of ill=Theme | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | shall | death | well content | tree rules |
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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