Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 9
Now when the pair had met The youth said: “Who art thou?”
Who acts: pair, youth · What happens: meet, say · 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 (pair, youth), 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 | 6 met | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 met | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pair | det |
| 4 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 met | aux |
| 6 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 youth | det |
| 8 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 art | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 art | punct |
| 12 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 art | nsubj |
| 13 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 art | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past · perfect | the pair | now | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the youth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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