Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 51
Replied the Master, laughing, “That is something harder to do, Else I were not at work So long in this world of ours.
Who acts: That, I · What happens: reply, laugh, be, do, not be · To what, where: Master, something, work · 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, I), 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 | Replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Master | det |
| 3 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Replied | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughing | punct |
| 5 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Replied | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 something | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 something | punct |
| 8 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 something | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 something | cop |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 laughing | obl |
| 11 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 something | amod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 harder | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 work | punct |
| 15 | Else | else | ADV | _ | 20 work | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 work | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 work | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 work | advmod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 work | case |
| 20 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 something | parataxis |
| 21 | So | so | ADV | _ | 22 long | advmod |
| 22 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 work | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 world | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 world | det |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 work | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 ours | case |
| 27 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 world | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Master | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent master=Topic | |||||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | That | something | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | That not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not is in a quote | past | I | work | in this world of ours; else, long property | tree rules |
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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