Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 71
Returning to the shore they begged him then: “Pray stay and eat,” but he, with accents wild, Cried: “Nay, I may not stop in this warm place.
Who acts: men · What happens: return, beg, pray, stay, eat, cry · To what, where: Adown, warm place · 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 (men), 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 | Returning | return | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 begged | csubj |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 shore | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shore | det |
| 4 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Returning | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 begged | nsubj |
| 6 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 begged | obj |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 begged | advmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Pray | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Pray | punct |
| 11 | Pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 begged | parataxis |
| 12 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Pray | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 eat | cc |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 stay | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Pray | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Pray | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 wild | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wild | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 accents | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 accents | case |
| 21 | accents | accent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 he | conj |
| 22 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 begged | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Cried | punct |
| 24 | Cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 begged | conj |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 stop | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 stop | punct |
| 27 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 32 stop | discourse |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Nay | punct |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 stop | nsubj |
| 30 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 stop | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 stop | advmod |
| 32 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 Cried | parataxis |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 place | case |
| 34 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 place | det |
| 35 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 place | amod |
| 36 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stop | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | gerund | to the shore result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to shore=Result | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | men = man | Adown | then | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | pray in a quote | infinitive | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | stay in a quote | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | eat in a quote | infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | cry speech: express | past | men = man not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | not stop in a quote | may | men = man | this warm place | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
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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