Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 95
But one thing he forbade With terrible command: That she should ever tell To any mortal soul Who ’twas had married her.
Who acts: one thing, Mount, mortal soul · What happens: forbid, tell, ', marry · To what, where: That, mortal soul, twas · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (one thing, Mount, mortal soul), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 forbade | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 thing | nummod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forbade | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 forbade | nsubj |
| 5 | forbade | forbid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | With | with | ADP | _ | 8 command | case |
| 7 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 command | amod |
| 8 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forbade | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 tell | punct |
| 10 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 tell | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tell | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 tell | aux |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 tell | advmod |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 forbade | conj |
| 15 | To | to | ADP | _ | 18 soul | case |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 soul | det |
| 17 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 soul | amod |
| 18 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tell | obl |
| 19 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 ’ | nsubj |
| 20 | ’ | ' | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 soul | acl:relcl |
| 21 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 married | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 married | aux |
| 23 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 ’ | xcomp |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 married | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 forbade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forbid | past | one thing | with terrible command; Katahdin nsubj | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | should | Mount | That | any mortal soul | ever | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to soul=Recipient | ||
| 3 | ' | past | any mortal soul | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | marry | past · perfect · passive | twas | Mount obj | tree rules |
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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