Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 99

Katahdin the great lord Of the Wabanaki; The children of the Light, Or of the Break of Day; Had wed him to the girl That she might have a child Who should raise up the tribe, And make them great once more Even a mighty race, The Lords of all the land.

Who acts: Had, That, child · What happens: w, have, raise up, make, break · To what, where: Katahdin, child, tribe, tribes, great lord, Day

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 (Had, That, child), 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	Katahdin	Katahdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lord	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lord	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lord	amod
4	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	Of	of	ADP	_	7 Wabanaki	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Wabanaki	det
7	Wabanaki	Wabanaki	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lord	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 children	punct
9	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 children	det
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lord	parataxis
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Light	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Light	det
13	Light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 children	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Break	punct
15	Or	or	CCONJ	_	18 Break	cc
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 Break	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Break	det
18	Break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 children	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Day	case
20	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Break	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 wed	punct
22	Had	Had	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 wed	nsubj
23	wed	w	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lord	parataxis
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wed	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 girl	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 girl	det
27	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wed	obl
28	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 have	nsubj
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 have	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 have	aux
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 wed	parataxis
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 child	det
33	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 have	obj
34	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 raise	nsubj
35	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 raise	aux
36	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 child	acl:relcl
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 raise	compound:prt
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 tribe	det
39	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 raise	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 make	punct
41	And	and	CCONJ	_	42 make	cc
42	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 raise	conj
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 make	obj
44	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 make	xcomp
45	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	46 more	advmod
46	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	50 race	advmod
47	Even	even	ADV	_	50 race	advmod
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 race	det
49	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 race	amod
50	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 make	parataxis
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 Lords	punct
52	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 Lords	det
53	Lords	Lord	PROPN	Number=Plur	50 race	appos
54	of	of	ADP	_	57 land	case
55	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	57 land	det:predet
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 land	det
57	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 Lords	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lord	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	w	past	Had	Katahdin	to the girl	tree rules
2	have	might	That	a child	Had nsubj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
3	raise up	should	a child	the tribe		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribe=Theme
4	make	infinitive	a child not said here	tribes = tribe	a mighty race parataxis; great property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
6	break			Day		nom break «event transitive»: of=patient

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 99