Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 83
Once on a time the old man Was sick unto death with an illness Whose cause was unknown to himself And his nephew, his fond loving nephew.
Who acts: old man, cause · What happens: be · To what, where: Afar
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 (old man, cause), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 sick | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sick | nsubj |
| 8 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sick | cop |
| 9 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 11 death | case |
| 11 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sick | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 illness | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 illness | det |
| 14 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 unknown | obl |
| 15 | Whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 16 cause | nmod:poss |
| 16 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 unknown | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 unknown | cop |
| 18 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sick | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 himself | case |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 unknown | obl |
| 21 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 nephew | cc |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 23 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 himself | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 nephew | punct |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 26 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 nephew | amod |
| 27 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 nephew | amod |
| 28 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 himself | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the old man | unto death; once, sick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | cause | Afar | with a illness; unknown property | tree rules |
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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