Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 43
Nor again did ever Indian find Those wheels of clay which he of old so dearly loved to eat.
Who acts: Nor · What happens: do, find, love, eat · To what, where: wheels
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 (Nor), 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 | Nor | Nor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 Indian | advmod |
| 5 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 did | xcomp |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 did | xcomp |
| 7 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 wheels | det |
| 8 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 find | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 clay | case |
| 10 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wheels | nmod |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 old | nsubj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 old | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 old | case |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wheels | amod |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 loved | advmod |
| 16 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 17 loved | advmod |
| 17 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 old | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 eat | mark |
| 19 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 loved | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Nor | again | indian property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find | infinitive | Nor not said here | that wheels of clay | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Topic | ||||
| 3 | love | participle | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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