Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 105
Even so these villagers said: “Suppose you really had All the cold sparkling water There is in the world, what then Would you do with it?”
Who acts: villagers, you, sparkling water · What happens: say, suppose, have, sparkle, be, do · To what, where: cold, world · 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 (villagers, you, sparkling water), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 5 said | mark |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 villagers | det |
| 4 | villagers | villager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Suppose | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Suppose | punct |
| 8 | Suppose | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 10 | really | really | ADV | _ | 11 had | advmod |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Suppose | ccomp |
| 12 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 cold | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cold | det |
| 14 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 15 | sparkling | sparkle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 water | amod |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 is | nsubj |
| 17 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 is | expl |
| 18 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 cold | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 is | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 do | punct |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 do | obj |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 do | advmod |
| 25 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 do | aux |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 do | nsubj |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 world | acl:relcl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 do | obl |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 Suppose | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | this villagers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | suppose in a quote | infinitive | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | have in a quote | past | you | all cold | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sparkle in a quote | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | be in a quote | present | sparkling water | all cold not said here | there | in the world | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot cold=Theme in world=Attribute | ||
| 6 | do in a quote | would | you | the world | then | with water | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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