Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 5
Now it chanced that these things were said In the hour when, while it passes Over the world, all the wishes Which are uttered by men are granted.
Who acts: water, men · What happens: chance, say, pass, utter, grant · To what, where: things, world, wishes · 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 (water, men), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 chanced | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chanced | nsubj |
| 3 | chanced | chance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 said | mark |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 things | det |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | aux:pass |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 chanced | advcl |
| 9 | In | in | ADP | _ | 11 hour | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hour | det |
| 11 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 said | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 passes | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 passes | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 passes | nsubj |
| 16 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 granted | advcl |
| 17 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 passes | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 passes | punct |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 wishes | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wishes | det |
| 23 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 uttered | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 uttered | aux:pass |
| 26 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 wishes | acl:relcl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 men | case |
| 28 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 uttered | obl |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 granted | aux:pass |
| 30 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 chanced | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chance | past | water | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · passive | this things | hour | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | pass | present | water | the world | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over world=Location | ||||
| 4 | utter speech: other | present · passive | men | all wishes | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | ||||
| 5 | grant | present · passive | all wishes | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=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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