Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 108
Truly my lord was right, These people are too vile, Too petty and too mean, For subjects to my son, He ne’er shall lead them on To glorious victory!
Who acts: lord, people, None · What happens: be, lead · To what, where: people, glorious victory
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 (lord, people, None), 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 | Truly | truly | ADV | _ | 5 right | advmod |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lord | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 right | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | cop |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 vile | punct |
| 7 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 vile | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 vile | cop |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 vile | advmod |
| 11 | vile | vile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 right | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 petty | punct |
| 13 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 14 petty | advmod |
| 14 | petty | petty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 vile | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 mean | cc |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 mean | advmod |
| 17 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 vile | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 subjects | punct |
| 19 | For | for | ADP | _ | 20 subjects | case |
| 20 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 right | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 son | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 subjects | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lead | punct |
| 25 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 lead | nsubj |
| 26 | ne’er | ne'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lead | nsubj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 lead | aux |
| 28 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 subjects | parataxis |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 lead | obj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 victory | case |
| 31 | To | to | ADP | _ | 30 on | fixed |
| 32 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 victory | amod |
| 33 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lead | obl |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | my lord | subjects to my son parataxis; right, truly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | this people | vile property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | this people not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | this people not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | lead | shall | None | people | glorious victory | ne’er nsubj | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on victory=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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