Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 114
When I was young, I felt this lack, and bore in patience the very common reproach of Europeans that we had a land without ancient legends or song.
Who acts: I, we · What happens: be, feel, bear, have · To what, where: lack, patience, common reproach
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 young | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 young | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 young | cop |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 felt | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 felt | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 felt | nsubj |
| 7 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 lack | det |
| 9 | lack | lack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 felt | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bore | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bore | cc |
| 12 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 felt | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 patience | case |
| 14 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bore | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 reproach | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 common | advmod |
| 17 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 reproach | amod |
| 18 | reproach | reproach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 patience | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Europeans | case |
| 20 | Europeans | european | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 reproach | nmod |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 had | obj |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 reproach | acl:relcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 land | det |
| 25 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obj |
| 26 | without | without | ADP | _ | 28 legends | case |
| 27 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 legends | amod |
| 28 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 had | obl |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 song | cc |
| 30 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 legends | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | I | this lack | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lack=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bear | past | I not said here | patience | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | have | past | we | the common reproach of Europeans | without ancient legends or song; a land obj | 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.
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