Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 15
So one day she bade her husband Put on him certain things Which no one could behold Who saw them not with eyes As every one could see them.
Who acts: mother, husband, one · What happens: bade, put, behold, not see, see · To what, where: certain things, things, eyes
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 (mother, husband, one), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 bade | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bade | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bade | nsubj |
| 5 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Put | nsubj |
| 8 | Put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bade | ccomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 Put | obl |
| 11 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Put | obj |
| 13 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 behold | obj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 behold | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 behold | aux |
| 17 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 things | acl:relcl |
| 18 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 behold | ccomp |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | obj |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 saw | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 eyes | case |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 saw | obj |
| 24 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 see | mark |
| 25 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 one | det |
| 26 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 see | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 see | aux |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 saw | advcl |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 see | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | mother | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | mother's husband | certain things | on sight | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme on he=Destination | |||
| 3 | behold | could | no one | certain things | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not see | past | things = thing | Who nsubj; eyes obj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see | could | every one | eyes = eye | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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