Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 46
So to Squʿtes, Mĭpis listened, Charmed with her beauty yet still mistrusting, Liking her look yet deeply doubting, Wondering whether this lovely creature Was truly a friend or a false-hearted foe.
Who acts: Mĭpis, lovely creature · What happens: listen, charm, mistrust, like, doubt, wonder · To what, where: Squʿtes, look · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Mĭpis, lovely creature), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 listened | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 Squʿtes | case |
| 3 | Squʿtes | Squʿtes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 listened | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Squʿtes | punct |
| 5 | Mĭpis | Mĭpis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 listened | nsubj |
| 6 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Charmed | punct |
| 8 | Charmed | charm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 listened | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 beauty | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 11 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Charmed | obl |
| 12 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 14 mistrusting | advmod |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 mistrusting | advmod |
| 14 | mistrusting | mistrust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 Charmed | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Liking | punct |
| 16 | Liking | like | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 mistrusting | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 look | nmod:poss |
| 18 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Liking | obj |
| 19 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 20 deeply | advmod |
| 20 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 21 doubting | advmod |
| 21 | doubting | doubt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 Liking | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Wondering | punct |
| 23 | Wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 mistrusting | conj |
| 24 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 31 friend | mark |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 creature | det |
| 26 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 creature | amod |
| 27 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 friend | nsubj |
| 28 | Was | Be | PROPN | Number=Plur | 31 friend | nsubj |
| 29 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 31 friend | advmod |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 friend | det |
| 31 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Wondering | ccomp |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 foe | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 foe | det |
| 34 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 hearted | amod |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 false | punct |
| 36 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 foe | amod |
| 37 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 friend | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | Mĭpis | Squʿtes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to squʿtes=Theme | ||||
| 2 | charm | participle | Mĭpis not said here | with Squʿtes's beauty | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | mistrust | gerund | Mĭpis not said here | yet; still | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | like | gerund | Mĭpis not said here | Squʿtes's look | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot look=Theme | ||||
| 5 | doubt | gerund | Mĭpis not said here | yet | deeply property | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | Mĭpis not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | friend | this lovely creature | Was nsubj; a hearted foe conj; truly property | tree rules |
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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