Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 56
Now for thirty days Kulóskap Who had well-nigh lost his power Of magic, as all magicians Are often all exhausted, Remembered that his friend The Fox was mteolin, With all the strength of sorcery.
Who acts: thirty days, friend · What happens: have, lose, exhaust, remember, be · To what, where: power, magicians, mteolin
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 (thirty days, friend), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 days | advmod |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 3 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 days | appos |
| 6 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 days | acl:relcl |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 lost | advmod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 well | punct |
| 10 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 11 lost | advmod |
| 11 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | ccomp |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 power | nmod:poss |
| 13 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lost | obj |
| 14 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 15 magic | case |
| 15 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 power | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 exhausted | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 exhausted | mark |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 magicians | det |
| 19 | magicians | magician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 exhausted | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 exhausted | aux:pass |
| 21 | often | often | ADV | _ | 23 exhausted | advmod |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 exhausted | advmod |
| 23 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 lost | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Remembered | punct |
| 25 | Remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 exhausted | conj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 mteolin | mark |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 friend | nmod:poss |
| 28 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 mteolin | nsubj |
| 29 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Fox | det |
| 30 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 friend | appos |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 mteolin | cop |
| 32 | mteolin | mteolin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Remembered | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 strength | punct |
| 34 | With | with | ADP | _ | 37 strength | case |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 strength | det:predet |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 strength | det |
| 37 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Remembered | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 sorcery | case |
| 39 | sorcery | sorcery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 strength | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 days | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | thirty days | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lose | past | thirty days not said here | Kulóskap's power of magic | nigh, well property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | exhaust | present · passive | all magicians | all, often property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | remember | participle | with all strength of sorcery | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | Kulóskap's friend | mteolin | tree rules |
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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