Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 104
And though it had been said That life and death and all Hung on her telling naught.
What happens: say, hang, tell · To what, where: country, naught · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 6 said | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | aux:pass |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 life | det |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 death | cc |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 life | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 all | cc |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 life | conj |
| 13 | Hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 all | acl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 naught | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 naught | nmod:poss |
| 16 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 naught | amod |
| 17 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 13 Hung | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | country | that life and death obj | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme life=Manner | ||||
| 2 | hang | participle | naught | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on naught=Location | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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