Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 22
But these had been enchanted, Poisoned by magic spells; Had the Master taken them then He would have lost his power.
Who acts: Master, wolf · What happens: enchant, poison, have, take, lose · To what, where: these, entrails, power
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master, wolf), 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 | _ | 5 enchanted | cc |
| 2 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 enchanted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 enchanted | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 enchanted | aux:pass |
| 5 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Poisoned | punct |
| 7 | Poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 enchanted | conj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 spells | case |
| 9 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 spells | amod |
| 10 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Poisoned | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 Had | punct |
| 12 | Had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 enchanted | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Master | det |
| 14 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taken | nsubj |
| 15 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 Had | xcomp |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 taken | obj |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 lost | advmod |
| 18 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lost | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 lost | aux |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 lost | aux |
| 21 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 taken | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 power | nmod:poss |
| 23 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lost | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 enchanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | past · perfect · passive | these | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | poison | participle | by magic spells | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | take | participle | the Master | entrails = entrail | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lose | would · perfect | wolf | wolf's power | then | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality |
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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