Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 32

But ah, when they drew near, they heard them sing, All sad and woful in a wailing chant: “No more, no more may we turn back again, For mortal eye hath seen us in our sin.”

Who acts: damsels, Indians, we · What happens: draw, hear, sing, turn back, see · To what, where: Indians, more, sin · 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 (damsels, Indians, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 drew	cc
2	ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 drew	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 drew	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 drew	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 drew	nsubj
6	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	near	near	ADV	_	6 drew	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 drew	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	obj
12	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 heard	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sad	punct
14	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 sad	det
15	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sing	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 woful	cc
17	woful	woful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sad	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 chant	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 chant	det
20	wailing	wailing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 chant	compound
21	chant	chant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sad	obl
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	39 seen	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	39 seen	punct
24	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 more	det
25	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 seen	nsubj:pass
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 seen	punct
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 seen	det
28	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 turn	advmod
29	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 turn	aux
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 turn	nsubj
31	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 seen	advcl
32	back	back	ADV	_	31 turn	advmod
33	again	again	ADV	_	31 turn	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 seen	punct
35	For	for	SCONJ	_	39 seen	mark
36	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 eye	amod
37	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 seen	nsubj:pass
38	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 seen	aux:pass
39	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 heard	conj
40	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 seen	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 sin	case
42	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 sin	nmod:poss
43	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 seen	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 drew	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	damsels = damsel				near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	damsels = damsel	Indians = indian				tree rules
3	sing speech: express	infinitive	Indians = indian not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	turn back in a quote	may	we			again		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	see in a quote	present · passive		no more	our sin		mortal eye nsubj:pass; us 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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 32