Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 60
Now to this very day, whene’er you see A baby well contented, crying “Goo!”
Who acts: you · What happens: see, content, cry · To what, where: baby, Goo
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 (you), 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 | 9 see | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 day | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 day | advmod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 whene’er | punct |
| 7 | whene’er | whene'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | conj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 baby | det |
| 11 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 contented | advmod |
| 13 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 baby | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 crying | punct |
| 15 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 see | advcl |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Goo | punct |
| 17 | Goo | goo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crying | obj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 Goo | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Goo | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | a baby | now; day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer baby=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | content | participle | a baby not said here | well property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | you not said here | Goo | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goo=Topic |
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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