Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 41
Then many ran to the Master Saying that Turtle was dead, But he answered “Cut up the whale For the dead will soon revive.”
Who acts: many, Master, Turtle, Was · What happens: run, say, be, answer, cut up, revive · To what, where: whale · 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 (many, Master, Turtle, Was), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ran | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Master | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Master | det |
| 6 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 7 | Saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 Master | acl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 dead | mark |
| 9 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 dead | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dead | cop |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Saying | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
| 13 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 answered | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 answered | nsubj |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 revive | advcl |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Cut | punct |
| 17 | Cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 answered | ccomp |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 Cut | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 whale | det |
| 20 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Cut | obj |
| 21 | For | for | ADP | _ | 23 dead | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dead | det |
| 23 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Cut | obl |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 revive | aux |
| 25 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 revive | advmod |
| 26 | revive | revive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | many | then | to the Master | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Master not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Turtle | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | Was | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | cut up in a quote | participle | the whale | for the dead | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent whale=Product for dead=Asset | ||||
| 6 | revive in a quote | future | soon property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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