Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 103

For as these people were, As I said, good simple folk, They had talked together, just As boys do at their play, When they are hungry, thus: “What would you like to have?”

Who acts: I, people, boys, you · What happens: be, talk, do, like, have, play · To what, where: people, play · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, people, boys, 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	For	for	ADP	_	13 folk	case
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 folk	mark
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 folk	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	cop
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
7	As	as	SCONJ	_	9 said	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 people	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 folk	punct
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 folk	amod
12	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 folk	amod
13	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 talked	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 folk	punct
15	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 talked	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 talked	aux
17	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
18	together	together	ADV	_	17 talked	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 do	punct
20	just	just	ADV	_	23 do	advmod
21	As	as	SCONJ	_	23 do	mark
22	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 do	nsubj
23	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 talked	parataxis
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 play	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 play	nmod:poss
26	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 do	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hungry	punct
28	When	when	SCONJ	_	31 hungry	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 hungry	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 hungry	cop
31	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 do	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 thus	punct
33	thus	thus	ADV	_	17 talked	advmod
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	39 like	punct
35	“	"	PUNCT	_	39 like	punct
36	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 like	obj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 like	aux
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 like	nsubj
39	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 talked	parataxis
40	to	to	PART	_	41 have	mark
41	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 like	xcomp
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	39 like	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	39 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	I	this people not said here		say property	tree rules
2	talk	past · perfect	people			for good simple folk this people; thus, together property	tree rules
3	do	present	boys		people's play		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	people			hungry property	tree rules
5	like in a quote	would	you			What obj	tree rules
6	have not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	play		people				nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 103