Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 104
When another will reply: “Truly, I’d like to eat A good hot venison steak, With maple sugar and bear’s oil;” “Nay, give me for my part Some succotash and honey.”
Who acts: another, boy · What happens: reply, have, like, eat, give · To what, where: oil, succotash, boy · 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 (another, boy), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 reply | advmod |
| 2 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 4 reply | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 reply | aux |
| 4 | reply | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 ’d | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 ’d | punct |
| 7 | Truly | truly | ADV | _ | 10 ’d | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Truly | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ’d | nsubj |
| 10 | ’d | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reply | parataxis |
| 11 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ’d | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 eat | mark |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 like | xcomp |
| 14 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 steak | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 steak | amod |
| 16 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 steak | amod |
| 17 | venison | venison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 steak | compound |
| 18 | steak | steak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 oil | nmod:poss |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sugar | punct |
| 20 | With | with | ADP | _ | 22 sugar | case |
| 21 | maple | maple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sugar | compound |
| 22 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 steak | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bear | cc |
| 24 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 steak | conj |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 steak | case |
| 26 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eat | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 ’d | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 ’d | punct |
| 29 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 give | punct |
| 30 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 32 give | discourse |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Nay | punct |
| 32 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 ’d | conj |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 give | iobj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 part | case |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 part | nmod:poss |
| 36 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 give | obl |
| 37 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 succotash | det |
| 38 | succotash | succotash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 give | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 honey | cc |
| 40 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 succotash | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reply | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 reply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | future | another | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | another | truly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | like in a quote | infinitive | another not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | eat not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | another not said here | a good hot venison steak and maple sugar and bear's oil | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Patient | ||||
| 5 | give in a quote | infinitive | boy not said here | some succotash and honey | boy | for my part | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient succotash=Theme for part=Asset |
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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