Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 60

But by the magic arts of wizard foe Through old Sabatis’ guile who owed him hate, The prop-stick fell and let the great bear-trap Drop full upon old Lacote’s head and back.

Who acts: guile, magic arts · What happens: owe, fall, let · To what, where: hate, Lacote, great trap Drop

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 (guile, magic arts), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	23 fell	cc
2	by	by	ADP	_	5 arts	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 arts	det
4	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 arts	amod
5	arts	art	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 fell	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 foe	case
7	wizard	wizard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 foe	amod
8	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arts	nmod
9	Through	through	ADP	_	13 guile	case
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Sabatis	amod
11	Sabatis	Sabatis	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 guile	nmod:poss
12	’	's	PART	_	11 Sabatis	case
13	guile	guile	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 foe	nmod
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 owed	nsubj
15	owed	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 guile	acl:relcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 owed	iobj
17	hate	hate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 owed	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stick	punct
19	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 stick	det
20	prop	prop	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stick	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 prop	punct
22	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hate	conj
23	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 let	cc
25	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 fell	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Drop	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Drop	amod
28	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 trap	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 bear	punct
30	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Drop	compound
31	Drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 let	obj
32	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Drop	amod
33	upon	upon	ADP	_	37 head	case
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Lacote	amod
35	Lacote	Lacote	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 head	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 Lacote	case
37	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 full	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 back	cc
39	back	back	ADV	_	37 head	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	owe	past	old Sabatis's guile	hate and the prop stick	Lacote	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal hate=Theme
2	fall	past	the magic arts of wizard foe through old Sabatis's guile			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	let	infinitive	the magic arts of wizard foe through old Sabatis's guile not said here	the great trap Drop		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Theme

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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 60