Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 45
This thought unto a certain wife he told-- A clever woman with a ready tongue-- And she replied: “O Master--not so fast!
Who acts: This, Kulóskap, Long · What happens: think, tell, reply · To what, where: certain wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Kulóskap, Long), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 wife | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wife | det |
| 5 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wife | amod |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 told | nsubj |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wife | acl:relcl |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 woman | punct |
| 10 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wife | appos |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 tongue | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tongue | det |
| 15 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tongue | amod |
| 16 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 woman | nmod |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 replied | punct |
| 18 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 replied | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 replied | nsubj |
| 20 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | parataxis |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 Master | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Master | punct |
| 23 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 24 Master | discourse |
| 24 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 replied | vocative |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 fast | punct |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 fast | advmod |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 fast | advmod |
| 28 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 replied | advmod |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | This | unto a certain wife | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Kulóskap | a certain wife not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Long | Master vocative; fast property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: 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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