Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 145
Then quoth the Wizard laughing: “Father mine, Had I repented and mine art eschewed, Then were we both of us dead men this day.”
Who acts: you, we · What happens: quoth, repent, eschew, be · To what, where: Wizard laughing, Priest, dead men · 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 (you, we), 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 | 2 quoth | advmod |
| 2 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 laughing | det |
| 4 | Wizard | wizard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 laughing | amod |
| 5 | laughing | laughing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 repented | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 mine | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 mine | punct |
| 8 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 mine | compound |
| 9 | mine | mine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 repented | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mine | punct |
| 11 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 repented | aux |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 repented | nsubj |
| 13 | repented | repent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 quoth | ccomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 eschewed | cc |
| 15 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eschewed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eschewed | nsubj |
| 17 | eschewed | eschew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 repented | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 men | punct |
| 19 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 men | advmod |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 men | cop |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 men | nsubj |
| 22 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 men | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 us | case |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 both | nmod |
| 25 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 men | amod |
| 26 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 quoth | obl |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 day | det |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 quoth | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 quoth | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | imperative | you not said here | then; day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | repent in a quote | past · perfect · passive | the Wizard laughing | Father mine nsubj:pass; I nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eschew in a quote | participle · passive | the Priest = priest | art nsubj | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: subject=Location | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | we | dead men | then | 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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