Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 25
[29] It is curious that in Italy a stone thrown into water is supposed by the sound which it makes to answer Yes or No to questions.
Who acts: 29, sound · What happens: be, throw, suppose, make, answer · To what, where: stone, water, Italy
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 (29, sound), 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 | _ | 2 29 | punct |
| 2 | 29 | 29 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 curious | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 29 | punct |
| 4 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 curious | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 curious | cop |
| 6 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 supposed | mark |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Italy | case |
| 9 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 supposed | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stone | det |
| 11 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 stone | acl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thrown | obl |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 supposed | aux:pass |
| 16 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 curious | advcl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 sound | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sound | det |
| 19 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 supposed | obl |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 makes | nsubj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 makes | nsubj |
| 22 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sound | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 answer | mark |
| 24 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 makes | xcomp |
| 25 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 24 answer | obj |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 No | cc |
| 27 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 Yes | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 questions | case |
| 29 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 answer | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 curious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | 29 | two nsubj; curious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | throw | participle | a stone not said here | into water result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer into water=Result | ||||
| 3 | suppose | present · passive | the sound | a stone | Italy | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent subject=Attribute | |||
| 4 | make | present | the sound | two nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | to-infinitive | the sound not said here | to questions | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent yes=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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