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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 102

And truly this was like The casting oil on fire, And men and women all Were raging to inquire About the mystery, And ask the wife herself Who might her husband be?

Who acts: this, men · What happens: be, rage, inquire, ask · To what, where: fire, wife

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, men), 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

ccadvmodnsubjcopcasedetcompoundcasenmodpunctccnsubjccconjadvmodauxconjmarkxcompcasedetoblpunctccconjdetobjnmod:unmarkednsubjauxnmod:possnsubjacl:relclpunctrootAndCCONJtrulyADVthisPRONwasAUXlikeADPTheDETcastingNOUNoilNOUNonADPfireNOUN,PUNCTAndCCONJmenNOUNandCCONJwomenNOUNallADVWereAUXragingVERBtoPARTinquireVERBAboutADPtheDETmysteryNOUN,PUNCTAndCCONJaskVERBtheDETwifeNOUNherselfPRONWhoPRONmightAUXherPRONhusbandNOUNbeAUX?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_8 oilcc
2trulytrulyADV_8 oiladvmod
3thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem8 oilnsubj
4wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 oilcop
5likelikeADP_8 oilcase
6ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 oildet
7castingcastingNOUNNumber=Sing8 oilcompound
8oiloilNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
9ononADP_10 firecase
10firefireNOUNNumber=Sing8 oilnmod
11,,PUNCT_18 ragingpunct
12AndandCCONJ_18 ragingcc
13menmanNOUNNumber=Plur18 ragingnsubj
14andandCCONJ_15 womencc
15womenwomanNOUNNumber=Plur13 menconj
16allallADV_18 ragingadvmod
17WerebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 ragingaux
18ragingrageVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part8 oilconj
19totoPART_20 inquiremark
20inquireinquireVERBVerbForm=Inf18 ragingxcomp
21AboutaboutADP_23 mysterycase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 mysterydet
23mysterymysteryNOUNNumber=Sing20 inquireobl
24,,PUNCT_26 askpunct
25AndandCCONJ_26 askcc
26askaskVERBVerbForm=Inf20 inquireconj
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 wifedet
28wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing26 askobj
29herselfherselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes28 wifenmod:unmarked
30WhowhoPRONPronType=Rel34 bensubj
31mightmightAUXVerbForm=Fin34 beaux
32herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 husbandnmod:poss
33husbandhusbandNOUNNumber=Sing34 bensubj
34bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf28 wifeacl:relcl
35??PUNCT_8 oilpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastthisfirelike the casting oil; truly propertytree rules
2ragepast · progressivemen and womenall propertyvn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3inquire speech: otherto-infinitivemen and women not said hereabout the mysteryvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about mystery=Topic
4ask speech: askinfinitivemen and women not said herethe wife girlvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient

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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