Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 67
“Grandfather!” said the God, “Thou takest no compassion Upon us Kosesak-- That is, ’thy suffering children’-- For thou hast raised this storm.
Who acts: Grandfather, Thou, That, thy · What happens: say, take, be, raise, suffer · To what, where: compassion, suffering children, thou · 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 (Grandfather, Thou, That, thy), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Grandfather | punct |
| 2 | Grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Grandfather | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Grandfather | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 God | det |
| 7 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 takest | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 takest | punct |
| 10 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 takest | nsubj |
| 11 | takest | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 compassion | det |
| 13 | compassion | compassion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 takest | obj |
| 14 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 Kosesak | case |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 Kosesak | nsubj |
| 16 | Kosesak | Kosesak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 takest | obl |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 children | punct |
| 18 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 children | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 children | cop |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 children | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 24 children | cc |
| 22 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 suffering | nmod:poss |
| 23 | suffering | suffering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 children | compound |
| 24 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | parataxis |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 children | punct |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 raised | punct |
| 27 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 raised | mark |
| 28 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 raised | aux:pass |
| 30 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | conj |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 storm | det |
| 32 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 raised | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Grandfather | the God nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | present | Thou | no compassion | upon Kosesak us | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compassion=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | That | suffering children | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | raise in a quote | present · passive | thou | this storm obj | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme storm=Destination | ||||
| 5 | suffer in a quote | thy | nom suffering «state intransitive»: poss=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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