Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 71
Then quoth the wizard: “Thou shalt see thy son die here to-night, For we have taken him too far to let him back to thee.”
Who acts: you, Thou, son, we · What happens: quoth, see, die, take, let back · To what, where: wizard, son, thee
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 (you, Thou, son, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 quoth | advmod |
| 2 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wizard | det |
| 4 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 quoth | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 7 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 see | nsubj |
| 8 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 quoth | conj |
| 10 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 12 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 see | xcomp |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 die | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 night | case |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 to | punct |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 die | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 taken | punct |
| 18 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 taken | mark |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 taken | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 taken | aux |
| 21 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 see | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 taken | obj |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 24 far | advmod |
| 24 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 taken | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 let | mark |
| 26 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 taken | advcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 let | obj |
| 28 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 let | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 thee | case |
| 30 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 let | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 quoth | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | imperative | you not said here | the wizard | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see in a quote | shall | Thou | thy son | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | die in a quote | infinitive | thy son not said here | here | night | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 4 | take in a quote | present · perfect | we | son | far property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 5 | let back in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | son | thee | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to thou=Recipient |
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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