Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 144
I venture to express the hope that all who love nature in New England will turn to the study of its folk-lore and thereby secure the final flash of gold on the mountain tops, the last touch in the picture of which I have spoken.
Who acts: I, nature, gold · What happens: venture, express, love, turn, secure, speak · To what, where: hope, study, final flash, mountain tops, folk lore · Speech: someone speaks here
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, nature, gold), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 venture | nsubj |
| 2 | venture | venture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 express | mark |
| 4 | express | express | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 venture | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hope | det |
| 6 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 express | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 turn | obj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 nature | det |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 love | nsubj |
| 10 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 all | acl:relcl |
| 11 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turn | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 England | case |
| 13 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 England | flat |
| 14 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 nature | nmod |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 turn | aux |
| 16 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hope | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 study | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 study | det |
| 19 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turn | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 lore | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 lore | nmod:poss |
| 22 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lore | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 folk | punct |
| 24 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 study | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 secure | cc |
| 26 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 27 secure | advmod |
| 27 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 turn | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 flash | det |
| 29 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 flash | amod |
| 30 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 secure | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 gold | case |
| 32 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 flash | nmod |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 tops | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 tops | det |
| 35 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 tops | compound |
| 36 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 secure | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 touch | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 touch | det |
| 39 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 touch | amod |
| 40 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 tops | nmod |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 picture | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 picture | det |
| 43 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 touch | nmod |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 which | case |
| 45 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 spoken | obl |
| 46 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 spoken | nsubj |
| 47 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 spoken | aux |
| 48 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 43 picture | acl:relcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 venture | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | venture | present | I | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | express | to-infinitive | I not said here | the hope | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Theme | ||||
| 3 | love | present | who nsubj | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | turn | future | all nature in New England | the hope | the study of most's folk lore | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent that=Theme to study=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | secure | infinitive | all nature in New England not said here | the final flash of gold | the mountain tops the last touch in the picture | thereby property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent flash=Theme on top=Source | ||
| 6 | speak speech: other | present · perfect | I | of the picture | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | study | most's folk lore | nom study «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | flash | gold | nom flash «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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