Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 59

Of sport like this I never dreamed;” and yet the mother feared, And told her agèd husband that their son was lost to them; For he’d become _mʾdaulin_ and endowed with secret might.

Who acts: I, mother, son · What happens: not dream, fear, tell, lose, have, become · To what, where: agèd husband, serpents, mʾdaulin · 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 (I, mother, 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 sport	case
2	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dreamed	obl
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 this	case
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 sport	nmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 dreamed	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 dreamed	advmod
7	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 dreamed	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 dreamed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 feared	cc
11	yet	yet	ADV	_	14 feared	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mother	det
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feared	nsubj
14	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dreamed	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
16	And	and	CCONJ	_	17 told	cc
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dreamed	conj
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 husband	nmod:poss
19	agèd	agèd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 husband	amod
20	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	iobj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 lost	nsubj:pass
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 son	nmod:poss
23	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lost	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 lost	aux:pass
25	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 husband	acl:relcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 lost	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 ’d	punct
29	For	for	SCONJ	_	31 ’d	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 ’d	nsubj
31	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 told	conj
32	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 ’d	xcomp
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	34 mʾdaulin	punct
34	mʾdaulin	mʾdaulin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 become	xcomp
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	31 ’d	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 endowed	cc
37	endowed	endow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 ’d	conj
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 secret	case
39	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 endowed	obl
40	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 endowed	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dreamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not dream	past	I				of sport like this	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	fear in a quote	past	the mother			yet		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	man's mother = mother not said here		mother's agèd husband			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient
4	lose in a quote	past · passive		mother's agèd husband	serpents = serpent		serpents's son nsubj:pass	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
5	have in a quote	past	son					tree rules
6	become in a quote	infinitive	son not said here	mʾdaulin				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
7	endow in a quote	participle	son not said here				with secret	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with secret=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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 59