Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 96

Among these was a comely youth, And as he grew older he wondered That most of his brothers and sisters Were dark and like the devils While he, and a few, were fair.

Who acts: these, Pûjinskwes, That · What happens: be, grow, wonder

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 (these, Pûjinskwes, That), 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	Among	among	ADP	_	6 youth	case
2	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 youth	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 youth	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 youth	det
5	comely	comely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 youth	amod
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wondered	punct
8	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 wondered	cc
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 grew	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 grew	nsubj
11	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wondered	advcl
12	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 grew	xcomp
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wondered	nsubj
14	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 youth	conj
15	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 dark	nsubj
16	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 That	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 brothers	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 brothers	nmod:poss
19	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 most	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sisters	cc
21	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 brothers	conj
22	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 dark	cop
23	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wondered	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 devils	cc
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 devils	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 devils	det
27	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 dark	conj
28	While	while	SCONJ	_	36 fair	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 fair	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fair	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 fair	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 few	det
33	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fair	nsubj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 few	punct
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 fair	cop
36	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wondered	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 youth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	these	among a comely youth	tree rules
2	grow	past	Pûjinskwes	old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wonder speech: ask	past	Pûjinskwes		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	That most of Pûjinskwes's brothers and sisters	the devils conj; dark property	tree rules
5	is	past	Pûjinskwes	fair property	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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 96