Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 106
And so they pressed her sore, Still teasing her to tell, And giving her no rest As fools are wont to do.
Who acts: life, fools · What happens: press, tease, tell, give, be, do · To what, where: sore, woman, rest · 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: who acts (life, fools), 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 | _ | 4 pressed | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 pressed | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pressed | nsubj |
| 4 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sore | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pressed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 teasing | punct |
| 8 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 9 teasing | advmod |
| 9 | teasing | tease | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 pressed | advcl |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 teasing | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 tell | mark |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 teasing | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 giving | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 giving | cc |
| 15 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 pressed | advcl |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 rest | nmod:poss |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 rest | det |
| 18 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 giving | obj |
| 19 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 wont | mark |
| 20 | fools | fool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wont | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 wont | cop |
| 22 | wont | wont | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 giving | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 do | mark |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 wont | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | past | life | woman's sore | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sore=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tease | gerund | life not said here | woman | still | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | life not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | give | gerund | life not said here | woman's rest | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | present | fools | wont property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | do | to-infinitive | fools not said here | vn act-114-1 «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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