Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 82
For to save your life you must run As far as the distant island Where I left him long ago.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: save, run, leave · To what, where: life, sorceress
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 (you, I), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 save | case |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 save | mark |
| 3 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 life | nmod:poss |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 save | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 run | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 run | aux |
| 8 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 save | parataxis |
| 9 | As | as | ADV | _ | 10 far | advmod |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 run | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 island | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 island | det |
| 13 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 island | amod |
| 14 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 far | obl |
| 15 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 left | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 left | nsubj |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 island | acl:relcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 left | obj |
| 19 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 ago | advmod |
| 20 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 17 left | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 save | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | to-infinitive | your life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | must | you | far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | I | sorceress | ago property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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