Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 121
My grandchild, you have been My death at last--for now I cannot leave the land; I shall swim in the sea no more!”
Who acts: you, grandchild, I · What happens: be, not leave, swim · To what, where: death, last, land, sea
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 (you, grandchild, I), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 grandchild | nmod:poss |
| 2 | grandchild | grandchild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 leave | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 death | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 death | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 death | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 death | cop |
| 7 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 death | nmod:poss |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grandchild | appos |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 death | nmod |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 leave | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 now | case |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 leave | obl |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 leave | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 leave | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 leave | advmod |
| 17 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 land | det |
| 19 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 leave | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 swim | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 swim | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 swim | aux |
| 23 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 leave | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 sea | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sea | det |
| 26 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 swim | obl |
| 27 | no | no | ADV | _ | 28 more | advmod |
| 28 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 swim | advmod |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 leave | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present · perfect | you | My death | last | My nmod:poss | tree rules | ||
| 2 | not leave | can | My grandchild | the land | I nsubj | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent land=Theme for now=Recipient | |||
| 3 | swim | shall | I | the sea | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory |
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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