---
title: [29] It is curious that in Italy a stone thrown into water is suppos… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: [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. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/9/25/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Kulóskap the master, and other Algonki…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/) / [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/9/) / 25

# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 25

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
\[29\] 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.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** 29, sound · **What happens:** be, throw, suppose, make, answer · **To what, where:** stone, water, Italy

<!-- .vabout -->
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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78673:9:25
# text = [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.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	29	29	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	24	obj	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | 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 |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/9/24/)
- next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/9/26/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/9/)