Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 20
And then, The Master said: “I’ll roam Forever if I must, But I will find the boy.”
Who acts: Master · What happens: say, roam, find · To what, where: boy · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Master), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 then | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Master | det |
| 5 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 roam | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 roam | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 roam | nsubj |
| 10 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 roam | aux |
| 11 | roam | roam | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | Forever | forever | ADV | _ | 11 roam | advmod |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 must | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 must | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 roam | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 find | punct |
| 17 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 find | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 find | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | aux |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 roam | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 boy | det |
| 22 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 roam | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 roam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Master | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | roam in a quote | future | the Master = master | forever property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find in a quote | future | the Master = master | the boy | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=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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