Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 111
And this he wished because He would not wet his feet, And so he lied and said: “The land is far away.”
Who acts: this, KULÓSKAP, land · What happens: wish, not wet, lie, say, be · To what, where: feet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, KULÓSKAP, land), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 wished | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 wished | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wished | nsubj |
| 4 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 wet | mark |
| 6 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wet | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 wet | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 wet | advmod |
| 9 | wet | wet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wished | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 feet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wet | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lied | punct |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lied | cc |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 lied | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lied | nsubj |
| 16 | lied | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wished | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 lied | conj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 away | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 away | punct |
| 21 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 land | det |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 away | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 away | cop |
| 24 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 away | advmod |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 said | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wished | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | this | KULÓSKAP = kulóskap nsubj | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | not wet | would | KULÓSKAP = kulóskap | KULÓSKAP's feet | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | KULÓSKAP = kulóskap | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | KULÓSKAP = kulóskap not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | the land | away, far 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.
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