Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 119

And since that time our tribe With all the Indian folk Who once might have become A great and glorious race, Have dwindled down into A very little folk.

Who acts: Indian folk · What happens: become, dwindle down · To what, where: great race, little folk, time tribe

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 (Indian folk), 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 tribe	cc
2	since	since	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tribe	compound
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tribe	nmod:poss
6	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	With	with	ADP	_	11 folk	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 folk	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 folk	det
10	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 folk	amod
11	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tribe	nmod
12	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 become	nsubj
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 become	advmod
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 become	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 become	aux
16	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 folk	acl:relcl
17	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 race	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 race	amod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 glorious	cc
20	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 great	conj
21	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 become	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dwindled	punct
23	Have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 dwindled	aux
24	dwindled	dwindle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 race	acl:relcl
25	down	down	ADP	_	24 dwindled	compound:prt
26	into	into	ADP	_	30 folk	case
27	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 folk	det
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 little	advmod
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 folk	amod
30	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dwindled	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tribe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	might · perfect	all Indian folk	a great race				once property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	dwindle down	infinitive · perfect		a great race not said here		a little folk			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 119

The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 119