Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 90
Quoth: “Some one is coming at midnight From whom thou shalt shrink with great trembling, But fear not, take courage, my nephew, Although he shall come to our wigwam At midnight when all things are sleeping.”
Who acts: one, thou, you, nephew, things · What happens: come, shrink, take, sleep · To what, where: courage, wigwam
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 (one, thou, you, nephew), 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 | Quoth | Quoth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 take | vocative |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 coming | punct |
| 3 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 coming | punct |
| 4 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coming | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 coming | aux |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Quoth | appos |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 midnight | case |
| 9 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coming | obl |
| 10 | From | from | ADP | _ | 11 whom | case |
| 11 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 shrink | obl |
| 12 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 shrink | nsubj |
| 13 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 14 shrink | aux |
| 14 | shrink | shrink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 coming | parataxis |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 trembling | case |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 trembling | amod |
| 17 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shrink | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fear | punct |
| 19 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 fear | cc |
| 20 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Quoth | appos |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 fear | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Quoth | punct |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 take | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 nephew | punct |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 27 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 courage | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 come | punct |
| 29 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 32 come | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 come | nsubj |
| 31 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 come | aux |
| 32 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 take | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 wigwam | case |
| 34 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 wigwam | nmod:poss |
| 35 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 come | obl |
| 36 | At | at | ADP | _ | 37 midnight | case |
| 37 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 come | obl |
| 38 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 42 sleeping | advmod |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 things | det |
| 40 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 sleeping | nsubj |
| 41 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 sleeping | aux |
| 42 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 come | advcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 take | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · progressive | some one | midnight | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shrink in a quote | shall | thou | with great trembling; whom obl | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from whom=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | imperative | you not said here | courage and my nephew | Quoth vocative | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme | |||
| 4 | come in a quote | shall | nephew | our wigwam | midnight | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wigwam=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | sleep in a quote | present · progressive | all things | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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