Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 71
Then, asking the village folk Why they had done this evil, Since ’twas of no use to them, They said: “Go ask our chief, It was he who ordered it.”
Who acts: women, evil · What happens: ask, do, say, go, be · To what, where: village folk, evil, chief · 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 (women, evil), 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 asking | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 said | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 folk | det |
| 5 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 folk | compound |
| 6 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asking | obj |
| 7 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 done | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 done | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 done | aux |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 asking | advcl |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 evil | det |
| 12 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 done | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 twas | punct |
| 14 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 16 twas | case |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Since | punct |
| 16 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 done | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 use | case |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 use | det |
| 19 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 twas | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 use | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 asking | punct |
| 23 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 said | nsubj |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 Go | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Go | punct |
| 27 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | ccomp |
| 28 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 Go | conj |
| 29 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 chief | nmod:poss |
| 30 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ask | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 32 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 ordered | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 ordered | cop |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 ordered | nsubj |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 ordered | nsubj |
| 36 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | parataxis |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 ordered | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | women = woman not said here | the village folk | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent folk=Recipient | |||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | women = woman | this evil | since twas of no use to twas | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | women = woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | our chief | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | past | evil | folk nsubj; who nsubj; use obj; order property | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/9/71/