Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 33
“O Uncle, aid me in my direst need And find for me this rascal foe,” he cried, “Who changes into every living thing, And thus escapes my burning righteous wrath.”
Who acts: Uncle, my · What happens: aid, find, cry, change, escape, burn · To what, where: uncle, direst need, rascal foe, living thing, burning righteous wrath · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Uncle, my), 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 aid | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 Uncle | discourse |
| 3 | Uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 aid | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Uncle | punct |
| 5 | aid | aid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 cried | parataxis |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 aid | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 need | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 need | nmod:poss |
| 9 | direst | dire | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 need | amod |
| 10 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 aid | obl |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 find | cc |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 aid | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 find | obl |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 foe | det |
| 16 | rascal | rascal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 foe | amod |
| 17 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 aid | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 aid | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 cried | nsubj |
| 21 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 changes | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 changes | punct |
| 24 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 changes | nsubj |
| 25 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 cried | conj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 thing | case |
| 27 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 thing | det |
| 28 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 thing | compound |
| 29 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 changes | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 escapes | punct |
| 31 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 escapes | cc |
| 32 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 33 escapes | advmod |
| 33 | escapes | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 cried | conj |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 wrath | nmod:poss |
| 35 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 wrath | amod |
| 36 | righteous | righteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 wrath | amod |
| 37 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 escapes | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 escapes | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 escapes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aid in a quote | infinitive | Uncle | uncle | my direst need | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | find in a quote | infinitive | Uncle not said here | this rascal foe | for uncle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent foe=Theme for i=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | uncle | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | change in a quote | present | into every living thing result; Who nsubj | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into thing=Result | |||||
| 5 | escape in a quote | present | uncle not said here | my burning righteous wrath | thus property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wrath=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | burn in a quote | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | need in a quote | my | nom need «state transitive»: poss=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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