Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 115
But for days and years thereafter Pûjinskwes sought to slay him, And she had terrible power, The might of the Evil Witches Which came from the early time.
Who acts: Kulóskap, Evil Witches · What happens: seek, slay, have, come · To what, where: wind, terrible power
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 (Kulóskap, Evil Witches), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 sought | cc |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sought | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 years | cc |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 days | conj |
| 6 | thereafter | thereafter | ADV | _ | 7 Pûjinskwes | advmod |
| 7 | Pûjinskwes | Pûjinskwes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 days | nmod |
| 8 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 slay | mark |
| 10 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sought | xcomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 slay | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sought | conj |
| 16 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 power | amod |
| 17 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 came | punct |
| 19 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Witches | det |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 Witches | aux |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Witches | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Witches | det |
| 23 | Evil | Evil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Witches | compound |
| 24 | Witches | Witch | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 came | nsubj |
| 25 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 came | nsubj |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sought | conj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 time | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 time | det |
| 29 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 time | amod |
| 30 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 came | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | day | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | slay not said to happen | to-infinitive | wind | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||||
| 3 | have | past | Kulóskap | terrible power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 4 | come | past | the Evil Witches | time | Which nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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