Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 3

Then she said to him, “O stranger, As thou art a man of mercy, Pray free me from the _waagûkw_ From the monstrous terrible vermin Which madden me by their bites!”

Who acts: death, monstrous terrible vermin, hags · What happens: say, pray, madden, bite · To what, where: sorcerer, waagûkw, death · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (death, monstrous terrible vermin, hags), 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	3 said	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stranger	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 stranger	punct
8	O	o	INTJ	_	9 stranger	discourse
9	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 art	punct
11	As	as	SCONJ	_	13 art	mark
12	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 art	nsubj
13	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 art	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 mercy	case
17	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 man	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Pray	punct
19	Pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 art	conj
20	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Pray	xcomp
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 free	obl
22	from	from	ADP	_	25 waagûkw	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 waagûkw	det
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 waagûkw	punct
25	waagûkw	waagûkw	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Pray	obl
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	31 vermin	punct
27	From	from	ADP	_	31 vermin	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 vermin	det
29	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 vermin	amod
30	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 vermin	amod
31	vermin	vermin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	parataxis
32	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 madden	nsubj
33	madden	madden	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 vermin	acl:relcl
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 madden	obj
35	by	by	ADP	_	37 bites	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 bites	nmod:poss
37	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 madden	obl
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 vermin	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 vermin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	death		sorcerer		then	stranger conj; the monstrous terrible vermin parataxis	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	pray in a quote	infinitive	death not said here			the waagûkw		free property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	madden in a quote	present	the monstrous terrible vermin	death				by hags's bites	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
4	bite in a quote		hags = hag						nom bite «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 3