Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 21
And yet this Wolverine Who was wise in all that’s bad, Wicked and witty in sin, Had not indeed gone far Or out-walked the afternoon, Before he began to think, As he shivered and cursed the cold, Of lighting another fire.
Who acts: Wolverine, Had · What happens: be, not go, walk, begin, think, shiver · To what, where: that, cold Of lighting · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolverine, Had), 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 | _ | 7 wise | cc |
| 2 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 7 wise | advmod |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Wolverine | det |
| 4 | Wolverine | Wolverine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wise | nsubj |
| 5 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 wise | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wise | cop |
| 7 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 that | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 that | det:predet |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 wise | obl |
| 11 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 that | conj |
| 12 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ’s | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Wicked | punct |
| 14 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bad | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 witty | cc |
| 16 | witty | witty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Wicked | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 sin | case |
| 18 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 witty | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gone | punct |
| 20 | Had | Had | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 gone | nsubj |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 gone | advmod |
| 22 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 23 gone | advmod |
| 23 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Wicked | conj |
| 24 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 walked | advmod |
| 25 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 walked | cc |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 walked | case |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 out | punct |
| 28 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 gone | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 afternoon | det |
| 30 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 walked | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 began | punct |
| 32 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 34 began | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 began | nsubj |
| 34 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 walked | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 think | mark |
| 36 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 began | xcomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 shivered | punct |
| 38 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 shivered | mark |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 shivered | nsubj |
| 40 | shivered | shiver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 think | ccomp |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 cursed | cc |
| 42 | cursed | curse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 shivered | conj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 lighting | det |
| 44 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 lighting | amod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 cold | punct |
| 46 | Of | of | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 lighting | amod |
| 47 | lighting | lighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 cursed | obj |
| 48 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 49 fire | det |
| 49 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 cursed | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this Wolverine | that | yet | Who nsubj; wise property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | not go | participle | Had | indeed property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | walk | past | Had not said here | afternoon | far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | begin | past | Had | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | Had not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | shiver | past | Had | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | curse | past | Had not said here | the cold Of lighting | another fire 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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