Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 11
As ’twere in a childish cry: “Knowest thou what he is saying?”
Who acts: Kulóskap · What happens: know, say · To what, where: thou, childish cry · 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 (Kulóskap), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 twere | mark |
| 2 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 twere | punct |
| 3 | twere | twere | ADV | _ | 7 cry | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 cry | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cry | det |
| 6 | childish | childish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cry | amod |
| 7 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Knowest | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Knowest | punct |
| 10 | Knowest | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cry | conj |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 Knowest | obj |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 saying | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saying | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 saying | aux |
| 15 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 Knowest | advcl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 cry | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | thou | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present · progressive | Kulóskap | what obj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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