Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 49
And sitting still he _willed_ Or wished for it to return.
Who acts: Master, stranger · What happens: sit, will, wish, return
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, stranger), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 sitting | cc |
| 2 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 willed | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 willed | nsubj |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 willed | punct |
| 6 | willed | will | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sitting | advcl |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 willed | punct |
| 8 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 wished | cc |
| 9 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 willed | conj |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 return | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 return | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 return | mark |
| 13 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wished | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | will | participle | Master | still | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wish | participle | Master not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | return | to-infinitive | stranger | 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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