Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 5
_ Which is in the Micmac, “Mother;” And told her he had game.
Who acts: Micmac · What happens: be, tell, have · To what, where: Micmac, woman, game · 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 (Micmac), 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 Micmac | punct |
| 2 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 Micmac | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Micmac | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Micmac | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Micmac | det |
| 6 | Micmac | Micmac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 told | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Mother | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Mother | punct |
| 9 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Micmac | appos |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 Mother | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Mother | punct |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | iobj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 told | ccomp |
| 17 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Micmac | Which nsubj; Mother appos | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the Micmac | woman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Micmac | game | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Patient |
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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