Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 26
Else will Pûn, The cruel winter, Conquer all things And ice and snow For ever and ever Cover the world.”
Who acts: Pûn · What happens: conquer, cover · To what, where: things, world
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 (Pûn), 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 | Else | else | ADV | _ | 9 Conquer | advmod |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 Conquer | aux |
| 3 | Pûn | Pûn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Conquer | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 winter | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 winter | det |
| 6 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 winter | amod |
| 7 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Pûn | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Pûn | punct |
| 9 | Conquer | conquer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 things | det |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Conquer | obj |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ice | cc |
| 13 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 things | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 snow | cc |
| 15 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ice | conj |
| 16 | For | for | ADP | _ | 17 ever | case |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 Conquer | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Cover | cc |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 Cover | advmod |
| 20 | Cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Conquer | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Cover | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Conquer | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Conquer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conquer | future | Pûn | all things and ice and snow | else property | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | |||
| 2 | cover | infinitive | Pûn not said here | the world | ever | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme world=Destination |
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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