Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 65

The lad grew very ill and begged, Entreated and implored that he might be allowed to roam As he had done before, but only got the answer “No.”

Who acts: lad · What happens: grow, beg, entreat, implore, allow, roam · To what, where: lad, answer

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 (lad), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lad	det
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 ill	advmod
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grew	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 begged	cc
7	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ill	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Entreated	punct
9	Entreated	entreat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 begged	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 implored	cc
11	implored	implore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 Entreated	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 allowed	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 allowed	nsubj:pass
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 allowed	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 allowed	aux:pass
16	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 implored	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 roam	mark
18	roam	roam	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 allowed	xcomp
19	As	as	SCONJ	_	22 done	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 done	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 done	aux
22	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 roam	ccomp
23	before	before	ADV	_	22 done	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 got	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 got	cc
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 got	advmod
27	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 answer	det
29	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 got	obj
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 No.	punct
31	No.	no.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	29 answer	appos
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 No.	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the lad		ill property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	beg speech: request	participle	the lad not said here			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
3	entreat	participle	the lad not said here			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	implore	participle	the lad not said here			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	allow	might · passive		lad		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
6	roam not said to happen	to-infinitive	lad not said here			tree rules
7	do	past · perfect	lad		before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	get	past	the lad not said here	the answer		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus

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 65