Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 72
“I care not if he die or no,” the father answering said, And moaning with an angry moan the wizard drew away And soon was lost to sight amid the waving forest leaves.
Who acts: I, son, moaning · What happens: not care, die, say, moan, draw away, lose · To what, where: father, wizard, sight amid · 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, son, moaning), 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 | _ | 3 care | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 care | nsubj |
| 3 | care | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 care | advmod |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 die | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 die | nsubj |
| 7 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 care | advcl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 no | cc |
| 9 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 die | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 care | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 care | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 father | det |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 14 | answering | answer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 said | aux:pass |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 drew | punct |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 drew | cc |
| 18 | moaning | moan | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 drew | csubj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 moan | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 moan | det |
| 21 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 moan | amod |
| 22 | moan | moan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 moaning | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wizard | det |
| 24 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 moaning | obj |
| 25 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | parataxis |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 drew | advmod |
| 27 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 lost | cc |
| 28 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 lost | advmod |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 lost | aux:pass |
| 30 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 drew | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 amid | mark |
| 32 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 amid | compound |
| 33 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lost | xcomp |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 leaves | det |
| 35 | waving | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 leaves | amod |
| 36 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 leaves | compound |
| 37 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 lost | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care in a quote | present | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | die a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | son | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund · passive | the father | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | moan | gerund | the wizard | with a angry moan | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wizard=Theme | ||||
| 5 | draw away | past | moaning | away property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | lose | past · passive | moaning not said here | sight amid | the waving forest leaves obj; soon property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: leaf=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | wave | gerund | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=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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