Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 93
The youth gave not way to his terror But leapt to his feet and said boldly: “Foul being, mine uncle remains here And ne’er shall be eaten by thee.”
Who acts: youth, all, thee · What happens: not give, say, remain, eat · To what, where: way, ne’er · 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 (youth, all, thee), 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 | 2 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 gave | advmod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 terror | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 terror | nmod:poss |
| 8 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 9 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 leapt | cc |
| 10 | leapt | leapt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 terror | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 feet | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 feet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 16 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 said | advmod |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 Foul | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Foul | punct |
| 19 | Foul | foul | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | ccomp |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 Foul | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 remains | punct |
| 22 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 remains | nsubj |
| 23 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 remains | nsubj |
| 24 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 25 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 remains | advmod |
| 26 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 eaten | cc |
| 27 | ne’er | ne'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 eaten | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 eaten | aux:pass |
| 30 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 remains | conj |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 thee | case |
| 32 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 eaten | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | past | the youth | way | to nephew's terror but leapt; to nephew's feet | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the youth not said here | boldly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | remain in a quote | present | all of a sudden creature = all | here | uncle nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | eat in a quote | shall · passive | thee | ne’er | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
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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