Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 97
Then they both sat in silence Until the Master said: “Do that--and then take my life.”
Who acts: sorcerers, Master · What happens: sit, say, do, take · To what, where: silence, that, life · 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 (sorcerers, 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 sat | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 4 sat | advmod |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 silence | case |
| 6 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 7 | Until | until | SCONJ | _ | 10 said | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Master | det |
| 9 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | advcl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Do | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Do | punct |
| 13 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 Do | obj |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 take | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 take | advmod |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sat | advcl |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 life | nmod:poss |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | sorcerers = sorcerer | silence | then | both property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in silence=Location | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | infinitive | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | take in a quote | infinitive | sorcerers = sorcerer not said here | my life | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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