Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 49
“That may be true, my nephew,” Quoth Turtle, “but what say you, As to the making over The _inside_ of a mortal?”
Who acts: That · What happens: be, say · To what, where: Quoth Turtle · 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 (That), 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 | _ | 5 true | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 true | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 true | cop |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 nephew | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 8 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 true | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
| 11 | Quoth | Quoth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Turtle | compound |
| 12 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 true | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 say | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 say | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 say | cc |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 say | obj |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Turtle | acl:relcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 say | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 making | punct |
| 20 | As | as | ADP | _ | 23 making | case |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 making | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 making | det |
| 23 | making | making | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 say | ccomp |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 _ | case |
| 25 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 _ | det |
| 26 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 making | nmod |
| 27 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 26 _ | advmod |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 31 mortal | punct |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 mortal | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 mortal | det |
| 31 | mortal | mortal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 making | parataxis |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 31 mortal | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 making | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | may | That | my nephew conj; Quoth Turtle advcl; true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Quoth Turtle | you obj; the making over the _ of a mortal ccomp | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme you=Manner |
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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