Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 91
It is madness to keep her a captive, But certain death if we let her go free!”
Who acts: word, we, certain death · What happens: be, keep, let, go · To what, where: madness, grandson, certain death
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 (word, we, certain death), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 madness | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 madness | cop |
| 3 | madness | madness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 keep | mark |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 madness | acl |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 keep | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 captive | det |
| 8 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 10 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 let | cc |
| 11 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 death | amod |
| 12 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 let | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 let | mark |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 let | nsubj |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 madness | acl:relcl |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 18 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 go | xcomp |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 madness | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 madness | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | word | madness | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | grandson | a captive obj | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Theme captive=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | let a condition, not said to happen | past | we | certain death | grandson obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | go | infinitive | certain death not said here | free property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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