Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 95
And on a summer day Who listens in a pine wood, May hear the trees a murmuring In the soft Indian tongue All of the olden time: (“_Î nĭl etuchi nek mʾkilaskîtap Î nĭl etuchi nek mʾkiluskíjin_”) “Oh, I’m such a great man!
Who acts: summer day, Î, some · What happens: listen, hear, mʾkilaskîtap, be · To what, where: trees, soft Indian tongue, great man · 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 (summer day, Î, some), 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 | _ | 14 hear | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 4 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | compound |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hear | obl |
| 6 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 listens | nsubj |
| 7 | listens | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 day | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 wood | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 wood | det |
| 10 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wood | compound |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 listens | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
| 13 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 hear | aux |
| 14 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 trees | det |
| 16 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hear | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 murmuring | det |
| 18 | murmuring | murmuring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hear | obj |
| 19 | In | in | ADP | _ | 23 tongue | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tongue | det |
| 21 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tongue | amod |
| 22 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tongue | amod |
| 23 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hear | obl |
| 24 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 tongue | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 time | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 time | det |
| 27 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 time | amod |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 All | nmod |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 “ | punct |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 “ | punct |
| 31 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 hear | obj |
| 32 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 37 mʾkilaskîtap | punct |
| 33 | Î | Î | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 mʾkilaskîtap | nsubj |
| 34 | nĭl | nĭl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 etuchi | compound |
| 35 | etuchi | etuchi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 mʾkilaskîtap | compound |
| 36 | nek | nek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 mʾkilaskîtap | compound |
| 37 | mʾkilaskîtap | mʾkilaskîtap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 “ | appos |
| 38 | Î | Î | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 mʾkilaskîtap | appos |
| 39 | nĭl | nĭl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 etuchi | compound |
| 40 | etuchi | etuchi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 mʾkiluskíjin | compound |
| 41 | nek | nek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 mʾkiluskíjin | compound |
| 42 | mʾkiluskíjin | mʾkiluskíjin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 mʾkilaskîtap | conj |
| 43 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 42 mʾkiluskíjin | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 mʾkiluskíjin | punct |
| 45 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 42 mʾkiluskíjin | punct |
| 46 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 50 ’m | punct |
| 47 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 50 ’m | discourse |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 Oh | punct |
| 49 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 50 ’m | nsubj |
| 50 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 mʾkilaskîtap | conj |
| 51 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 54 man | det:predet |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 54 man | det |
| 53 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 man | amod |
| 54 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 ’m | obj |
| 55 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | present | a summer day | in a pine wood | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wood=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | may | the trees | the soft Indian tongue | day | a murmuring obj | tree rules | ||
| 3 | mʾkilaskîtap in a quote | Î | etuchi nek mʾkiluskíjin conj | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | some | such great man | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot man=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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