Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 119
But this one was a wizard bear who wished to keep the lad.
Who acts: one, wizard bear · What happens: be, wish, keep · To what, where: wizard bear, lad
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, wizard bear), 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 | _ | 7 bear | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bear | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bear | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bear | det |
| 6 | wizard | wizard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bear | amod |
| 7 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 wished | nsubj |
| 9 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bear | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 keep | mark |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wished | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lad | det |
| 13 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 keep | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this one | a wizard bear | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | a wizard bear | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | a wizard bear not said here | the lad | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=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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