Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 52
Then the brothers said: “This truly Is a very great magician, But he shall be tried ere he goes, And that right bitterly!”
Who acts: brothers, This, Master · What happens: say, be, try, go · To what, where: great magician, Master · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (brothers, This, Master), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brothers | det |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 magician | punct |
| 7 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 magician | nsubj |
| 8 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 13 magician | advmod |
| 9 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 magician | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 magician | det |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 great | advmod |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 magician | amod |
| 13 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tried | punct |
| 15 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 tried | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 tried | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 tried | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 tried | aux:pass |
| 19 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | conj |
| 20 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 22 goes | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 goes | nsubj |
| 22 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 tried | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 right | punct |
| 24 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 right | cc |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 right | nsubj |
| 26 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 27 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 26 right | advmod |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 26 right | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the brothers | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | This | a great magician | truly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | try in a quote | shall · passive | Master | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present | Master | ere property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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