Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 121
Truly it had been wise For them of olden time, And for us too, indeed, Could they have held their tongues.
What happens: be, hold · To what, where: minds
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 | Truly | truly | ADV | _ | 5 wise | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wise | expl |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wise | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 wise | cop |
| 5 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | For | for | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wise | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wise | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 held | punct |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 held | cc |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 indeed | case |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 indeed | nsubj |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 indeed | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 too | punct |
| 17 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 22 held | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 indeed | punct |
| 19 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 held | aux |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 held | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 held | aux |
| 22 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wise | advcl |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 tongues | nmod:poss |
| 24 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 held | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | time | for minds = mind; truly, wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | could · perfect · passive | minds = mind | minds's tongues obj | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme tongue=Eventuality |
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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