Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 116
We bewailed our wretched poverty when we had in our lap a casket full of treasure which we would not take the pains to open.
Who acts: We · What happens: bewail, have, not take, open · To what, where: wretched poverty, casket, lap
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 (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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 bewailed | nsubj |
| 2 | bewailed | bewail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 poverty | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 poverty | amod |
| 5 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bewailed | obj |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 had | advmod |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bewailed | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 lap | case |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lap | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 casket | det |
| 13 | casket | casket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 casket | amod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 treasure | case |
| 16 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 full | obl |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 take | obj |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 take | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 take | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 take | advmod |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 casket | appos |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 pains | det |
| 23 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 take | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 open | mark |
| 25 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 take | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bewailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bewail | past | We | our wretched poverty | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer poverty=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | past | we | a casket | our lap | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent casket=Patient | |||
| 3 | not take | would | we | a casket | the pains obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument which=Theme pain=Destination | |||
| 4 | open | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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