Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 68
“Why dost thou seek to keep thy son from getting magic power?
Who acts: thou · What happens: seek, keep, get · To what, where: son, magic power
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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 seek | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 seek | advmod |
| 3 | dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 seek | aux |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 seek | nsubj |
| 5 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 keep | mark |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seek | xcomp |
| 8 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | obj |
| 10 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 11 getting | mark |
| 11 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 keep | advcl |
| 12 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 power | amod |
| 13 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 getting | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 seek | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek in a quote | present · do-support | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | keep not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | thou not said here | thy son | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | gerund | thou not said here | magic power | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer power=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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