Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 85
The loving nephew grievèd, Grieved in the depths of his heart, Then thought to himself: “My dear uncle, At least shall not die on bare earth.
Who acts: loving nephew grievèd · What happens: grieve, think, not die · To what, where: loving nephew grievèd, depths, grievèd, least · 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 (loving nephew grievèd), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 grievèd | det |
| 2 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grievèd | amod |
| 3 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grievèd | compound |
| 4 | grievèd | grievèd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Grieved | punct |
| 6 | Grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 grievèd | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 depths | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 depths | det |
| 9 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Grieved | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 heart | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 depths | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grievèd | punct |
| 14 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 thought | advmod |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 himself | case |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 thought | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 uncle | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 uncle | punct |
| 20 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 21 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 uncle | amod |
| 22 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 die | punct |
| 24 | At | at | ADP | _ | 25 least | case |
| 25 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 die | obl |
| 26 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 die | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 die | advmod |
| 28 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 uncle | conj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 earth | case |
| 30 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 earth | amod |
| 31 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 die | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | participle | the loving nephew grievèd not said here | the depths of grievèd's heart | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the loving nephew grievèd | grievèd | then | My dear uncle ccomp | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 3 | not die in a quote | shall | the loving nephew grievèd not said here | least | on bare earth | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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