Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 48
“It is the mighty Waʾsis,” she replied: “And there he sits before you on the floor!
Who acts: work, mighty Waʾsis, man · What happens: be, reply, sit · To what, where: mighty Waʾsis, floor · 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 (work, mighty Waʾsis, man), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Waʾsis | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Waʾsis | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Waʾsis | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Waʾsis | det |
| 5 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Waʾsis | amod |
| 6 | Waʾsis | Waʾsis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Waʾsis | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Waʾsis | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 sits | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 sits | punct |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sits | cc |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 sits | expl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sits | nsubj |
| 16 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 replied | conj |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 sits | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 floor | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 floor | det |
| 21 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sits | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | work | the mighty Waʾsis | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: express | past | the mighty Waʾsis | Waʾsis nsubj | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sit in a quote | present | man | the floor; there | before you | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before you=Location |
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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