Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 87
These were her words: “Could the Wind but hear me, I should not long be kept a captive, Soon he would carry the news to the Mountain!
Who acts: These, note · What happens: be, hear, keep, carry · To what, where: words, Fire, news, Mountain
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 (These, note), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 words | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 words | cop |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 words | nmod:poss |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 words | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Could | punct |
| 7 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 kept | aux |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Wind | det |
| 9 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Could | nsubj |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 hear | cc |
| 11 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Could | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 hear | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Could | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 kept | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 kept | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 long | advmod |
| 17 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 kept | advmod |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 kept | aux:pass |
| 19 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 captive | det |
| 21 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kept | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 carry | punct |
| 23 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 carry | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 carry | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 carry | aux |
| 26 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 kept | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 news | det |
| 28 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 carry | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 Mountain | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Mountain | det |
| 31 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 carry | obl |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | These | life's words | life nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hear in a quote | infinitive | Fire | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | should · passive | life's words | I nsubj; a captive obj; long property | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme captive=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | carry in a quote | would | note | the news | the Mountain | soon property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent news=Theme to mountain=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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