Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 161
Then spake the wizard thus: “Do ye all wait me here And I will go and spy The numbers of the foe, Taking with me but one; Another Indian brave Who hath the magic gift.”
Who acts: you, ye, I · What happens: speak, wait, go, spy, take, have · To what, where: wizard, me, numbers, magic gift · 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, ye, I), 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 spake | advmod |
| 2 | spake | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wizard | det |
| 4 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spake | obj |
| 5 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 spake | advmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 wait | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 wait | punct |
| 8 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 wait | aux |
| 9 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 wait | nsubj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 wait | advmod |
| 11 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 spake | parataxis |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 wait | obj |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 wait | advmod |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 go | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wait | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 spy | cc |
| 19 | spy | spy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 go | conj |
| 20 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 numbers | det |
| 21 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 spy | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 foe | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 foe | det |
| 24 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 numbers | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Taking | punct |
| 26 | Taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 go | parataxis |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 Taking | obl |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 one | cc |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 Taking | conj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 brave | punct |
| 32 | Another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 34 brave | nsubj |
| 33 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 brave | amod |
| 34 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spake | parataxis |
| 35 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 hath | nsubj |
| 36 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 brave | ccomp |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 gift | det |
| 38 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 gift | compound |
| 39 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hath | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the wizard | then | thus property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | wait in a quote | infinitive · do-support | ye | me | here | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go in a quote | future | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | spy in a quote | infinitive | I not said here | the numbers of the foe | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | take in a quote | gerund | with me; one conj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | have in a quote | present | the magic gift | Who nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Patient |
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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