Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 27
Twice did the mischief-maker do this deed, Till, finally, the injured man bethought Him that he must consult the secret powers How he should catch and punish well the foe.
Who acts: injured man, Till, secret · What happens: do, bethink, consult, power, catch, punish · To what, where: mischief maker, deed, Till, foe
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (injured man, Till, secret), 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 | Twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 did | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maker | det |
| 4 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 maker | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 mischief | punct |
| 6 | maker | maker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 deed | det |
| 9 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Till | punct |
| 11 | Till | Till | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 deed | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bethought | punct |
| 13 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 18 bethought | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 finally | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | injured | injured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bethought | nsubj |
| 18 | bethought | bethink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | conj |
| 19 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bethought | obj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 consult | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 consult | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 consult | aux |
| 23 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 bethought | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 secret | det |
| 25 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 powers | nsubj |
| 26 | powers | power | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 consult | parataxis |
| 27 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 catch | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 catch | nsubj |
| 29 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 catch | aux |
| 30 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 powers | advcl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 punish | cc |
| 32 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 catch | conj |
| 33 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 punish | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 foe | det |
| 35 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 punish | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the mischief maker | twice property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maker=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | do | present | this deed | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | bethink | past | the injured man | Till | finally property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | consult | must | Till | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | power | present | the secret | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | catch | should | secret | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | punish | infinitive | secret not said here | the foe | well property | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foe=Patient |
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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