Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 112

Who fain would kill yourselves By your own folly, ye Mud-wasps who sting the hands Which fain would pluck you forth When drowning in the pool.

Who acts: ye, Mud wasps, hands · What happens: be, kill, wasp, sting, fain, pluck · To what, where: yourselves, you, pool

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 (ye, Mud wasps, hands), 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 kill	nsubj
2	fain	fain	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Who	cop
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 kill	aux
4	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 kill	obj
6	By	by	ADP	_	9 folly	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 folly	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 folly	amod
9	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kill	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wasps	punct
11	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 wasps	nsubj
12	Mud	Mud	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 wasps	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Mud	punct
14	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kill	obl
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 sting	nsubj
16	sting	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 wasps	acl:relcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hands	det
18	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pluck	nsubj
19	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 fain	nsubj
20	fain	fain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 hands	acl:relcl
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 pluck	aux
22	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sting	ccomp
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 pluck	obj
24	forth	forth	ADV	_	22 pluck	advmod
25	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 drowning	advmod
26	drowning	drown	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 pluck	advcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 pool	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pool	det
29	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drowning	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present					tree rules
2	kill	would		yourselves		by your own folly	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourselves=Theme
3	wasp		ye				tree rules
4	sting	present	Mud wasps				tree rules
5	fain	present	the hands				tree rules
6	pluck	would	the hands	you		forth property	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
7	drown	gerund	the hands not said here		the pool		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: 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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🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 112

The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 112