Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 50
At last, all tortured by her pain and harrowed by her fears, She questioned him and said: “My son, where hast thou been all night?”
Who acts: sleep, thou · What happens: torture, harrow, question, say, have, be · To what, where: last, arrow, night · 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 (sleep, thou), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tortured | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 tortured | advmod |
| 5 | tortured | torture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 pain | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 pain | nmod:poss |
| 8 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tortured | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 harrowed | cc |
| 10 | harrowed | harrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tortured | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 fears | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fears | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fears | fear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 harrowed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 questioned | punct |
| 15 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 questioned | nsubj |
| 16 | questioned | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tortured | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 questioned | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 questioned | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 son | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 son | punct |
| 22 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hast | punct |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 hast | advmod |
| 26 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 son | acl:relcl |
| 27 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 night | nsubj |
| 28 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 night | cop |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 night | det |
| 30 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hast | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 tortured | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tortured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | torture | participle | last | by sleep's pain; all property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | harrow | participle | by sleep's fears | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | question speech: other | past | sleep | arrow | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | sleep not said here | My son ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | participle | thou | all night | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | pain | sleep | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | fear | sleep | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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