Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 24
But for my battle With Pûn the winter All life had perished: Never again though, While life is in me Can I venture On such a struggle!
Who acts: life, me, my · What happens: perish, be, venture, battle · To what, where: life, struggle
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, me, my), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 perished | cc |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 battle | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 battle | nmod:poss |
| 4 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 perished | obl |
| 5 | With | with | ADP | _ | 6 Pûn | case |
| 6 | Pûn | Pûn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 battle | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 winter | det |
| 8 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Pûn | appos |
| 9 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 life | det |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 perished | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 perished | aux |
| 12 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 again | punct |
| 14 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 again | advmod |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 perished | advmod |
| 16 | though | though | ADV | _ | 15 again | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 venture | punct |
| 18 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 venture | mark |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 me | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 me | cop |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 venture | nsubj |
| 23 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 venture | aux |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 venture | nsubj |
| 25 | venture | venture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 perished | conj |
| 26 | On | on | ADP | _ | 29 struggle | case |
| 27 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 struggle | det:predet |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 struggle | det |
| 29 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 venture | obl |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 perished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perish | past · perfect · passive | all life | again; never | for my battle with Pûn | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | life | in me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | venture | can | me | such struggle | I nsubj | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | battle | my | with Pûn | nom battle «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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