Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 144
When they had reached all safe and sound their home, The Priest said to the Wizard: “O my son, Thou shouldst repent and turn thee from thine art Unto God’s ways and ever keep the Faith.”
Who acts: father, Priest, son · What happens: reach, sound, say, repent, turn, keep · To what, where: home, Wizard, thee, art, Faith · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (father, Priest, son), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | aux |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 said | advcl |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 safe | advmod |
| 6 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reached | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sound | cc |
| 8 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | conj |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 home | nmod:poss |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sound | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Priest | det |
| 13 | Priest | Priest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Wizard | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Wizard | det |
| 17 | Wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 repent | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 repent | punct |
| 20 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 22 son | discourse |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 son | nmod:poss |
| 22 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 repent | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 son | punct |
| 24 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 repent | nsubj |
| 25 | shouldst | should | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 26 repent | aux |
| 26 | repent | repent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 turn | cc |
| 28 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 repent | conj |
| 29 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 turn | obj |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 art | case |
| 31 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 art | nmod:poss |
| 32 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 turn | obl |
| 33 | Unto | unto | ADP | _ | 36 ways | case |
| 34 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 ways | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 34 God | case |
| 36 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 turn | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 keep | cc |
| 38 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 39 keep | advmod |
| 39 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 repent | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Faith | det |
| 41 | Faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 keep | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 repent | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 repent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect | father | safe property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sound | present | father not said here | father's home | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location home=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Priest | the Wizard | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wizard=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | repent in a quote | should | my son | Thou nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | turn in a quote | infinitive | my son not said here | thee | thine art | unto God's ways | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent thou=Theme from art=Trajectory | ||
| 6 | keep in a quote | infinitive | my son not said here | the Faith | ever | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=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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