Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 138
Then he who had been taken with the Priest At once brought all his magic arts to bear, And burst his bonds asunder with a yell That curdled every heart among the foe.
What happens: take, bring, bear, burst, curdle · To what, where: PRIEST, magic arts, bonds asunder, That
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: 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 | 6 taken | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 taken | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 taken | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 taken | aux:pass |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Priest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Priest | det |
| 9 | Priest | Priest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obl |
| 10 | At | at | SCONJ | _ | 12 brought | mark |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 brought | advmod |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | advcl |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 arts | det:predet |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 arts | nmod:poss |
| 15 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 arts | amod |
| 16 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 brought | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 bear | mark |
| 18 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 brought | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 burst | punct |
| 20 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 burst | cc |
| 21 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 brought | parataxis |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 asunder | nmod:poss |
| 23 | bonds | bond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 asunder | compound |
| 24 | asunder | asunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 burst | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 yell | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 yell | det |
| 27 | yell | yell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 curdled | obl |
| 28 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 curdled | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | curdled | curdle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 burst | conj |
| 30 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 heart | det |
| 31 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 curdled | obj |
| 32 | among | among | ADP | _ | 34 foe | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 foe | det |
| 34 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 curdled | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect · passive | PRIEST | then | with the Priest; who nsubj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | |||
| 2 | bring | past | PRIEST's magic arts | once property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent art=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bear | to-infinitive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | burst | past | PRIEST's bonds asunder | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location asunder=Theme | |||||
| 5 | curdle | participle · passive | That | with a yell; among the foe; every heart obj | 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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