Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 19
Then, when returned, he asked The old, old grandmother Where Sable was? but she Could only weep.
Who acts: Kulóskap, tale · What happens: return, ask, weep · To what, where: old old grandmother
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kulóskap, tale), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 asked | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 returned | advmod |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 asked | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 grandmother | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grandmother | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 old | punct |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grandmother | amod |
| 12 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obj |
| 13 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 was | advmod |
| 14 | Sable | Sable | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 was | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 grandmother | acl:relcl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 weep | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 weep | nsubj |
| 19 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 weep | aux |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 weep | advmod |
| 21 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 asked | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | participle | Kulóskap not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Kulóskap | the old old grandmother | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grandmother=Recipient | |||
| 3 | weep | could | tale | vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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