Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 115
Should thy feet fall In the Laʿtogwesnuk Thy beauty will leave thee, Thy green dress fade, Hair turning gray Thy strength become weakness.”
Who acts: feet, beauty, Hair, green dress fade, Thy · What happens: fall, leave, turn, become, fade · To what, where: Laʿtogwesnuk, thee, gray, weakness
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feet, beauty, Hair, green dress fade), 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 | Should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fall | aux |
| 2 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 feet | nmod:poss |
| 3 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fall | nsubj |
| 4 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | In | in | ADP | _ | 7 Laʿtogwesnuk | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Laʿtogwesnuk | det |
| 7 | Laʿtogwesnuk | Laʿtogwesnuk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fall | obl |
| 8 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 9 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leave | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 leave | aux |
| 11 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fall | conj |
| 12 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 leave | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fade | punct |
| 14 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 fade | nmod:poss |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fade | amod |
| 16 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fade | compound |
| 17 | fade | fade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 become | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Hair | punct |
| 19 | Hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fade | conj |
| 20 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 Hair | acl |
| 21 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turning | obj |
| 22 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 strength | nmod:poss |
| 23 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turning | obj |
| 24 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fall | conj |
| 25 | weakness | weakness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 become | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fall | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | should | thy feet | the Laʿtogwesnuk | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in laʿtogwesnuk=Location | ||||
| 2 | leave | future | Thy beauty | thee | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | Hair not said here | gray | Thy strength obj | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent gray=Theme strength=Result | |||
| 4 | become | present | Thy green dress fade and Hair | weakness | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | fade | Thy | nom fade «act intransitive»: poss=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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