Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 14
“Well, I think,” replied Kulóskap, “That he is talking of eggs For he cries ‘_Huwâh, Huwâh_’ As if he were trying to say _Wâhwun_--which means an egg In the Passamaquoddy tongue.”
Who acts: Kulóskap, That, Wâhwun · What happens: think, reply, talk, cry, try, say · To what, where: Huwâh ’, Wâhwun, egg · 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, That, Wâhwun), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 think | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 talking | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 talking | punct |
| 12 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 talking | nsubj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 talking | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 talking | aux |
| 15 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 replied | advcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 eggs | case |
| 17 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 talking | obl |
| 18 | For | for | ADP | _ | 20 cries | case |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cries | nsubj |
| 20 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 talking | obl |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 ’ | punct |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 Huwâh | punct |
| 23 | Huwâh | Huwâh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 ’ | compound |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Huwâh | punct |
| 25 | Huwâh | Huwâh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Huwâh | conj |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 Huwâh | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 talking | obl |
| 28 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 trying | mark |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 trying | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 trying | nsubj |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 trying | aux |
| 32 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 talking | advcl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 say | mark |
| 34 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 trying | xcomp |
| 35 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 36 Wâhwun | punct |
| 36 | Wâhwun | Wâhwun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 say | obj |
| 37 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 36 Wâhwun | punct |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 40 means | punct |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 means | nsubj |
| 40 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 Wâhwun | acl:relcl |
| 41 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 egg | det |
| 42 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 means | obj |
| 43 | In | in | ADP | _ | 46 tongue | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 tongue | det |
| 45 | Passamaquoddy | Passamaquoddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 tongue | compound |
| 46 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 egg | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | Kulóskap | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Kulóskap | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | talk in a quote | present · progressive | That | Huwâh ’ | of eggs; Kulóskap nsubj | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | cry speech: express in a quote | present | Kulóskap | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | try in a quote | past · progressive | Kulóskap | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Kulóskap not said here | Wâhwun | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wâhwun=Topic | ||||
| 7 | mean in a quote | present | Wâhwun | a egg | in the Passamaquoddy tongue | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot egg=Theme in tongue=Attribute |
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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