Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 110
Now while the Master was young, And had not gained the power Which he won in riper age, Pûjinskwes sought his love.
Who acts: Master, young gained power, Pûjinskwes · What happens: be, not gain, win, seek, love · To what, where: riper age, love
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master, young gained power, Pûjinskwes), 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 | 6 young | advmod |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 young | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Master | det |
| 4 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 young | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 young | cop |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 power | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gained | punct |
| 8 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gained | cc |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gained | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 gained | advmod |
| 11 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 power | amod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 power | det |
| 13 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sought | nsubj |
| 14 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 won | nsubj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 won | nsubj |
| 16 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 power | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 age | case |
| 18 | riper | riper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 age | compound |
| 19 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 won | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 power | punct |
| 21 | Pûjinskwes | Pûjinskwes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 sought | nsubj |
| 22 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 love | nmod:poss |
| 24 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sought | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Master | now | young property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not gain | past · perfect | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | win | past | the young gained power | in riper age | Master nsubj | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in age=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | seek | past | the young gained power | Pûjinskwes's love | Pûjinskwes nsubj | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Theme | |||
| 5 | love | Pûjinskwes | nom love «feeling transitive»: 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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