Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 5
And then the eldest wolf The Sagem or the chief, Said unto him: “I hope Thou’lt camp with us to-night; For truly it is ill For any gentleman To be alone where he Might meet with vulgar beasts!”
Who acts: lupine land loafers, camp, gentleman · What happens: hope, be, meet · To what, where: Thou’lt camp, Sagem
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 (lupine land loafers, camp, gentleman), 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 Sagem | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 Sagem | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wolf | det |
| 4 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 wolf | amod |
| 5 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Sagem | nsubj |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sagem | det |
| 7 | Sagem | Sagem | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 chief | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chief | det |
| 10 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Sagem | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Said | punct |
| 12 | Said | Said | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Sagem | conj |
| 13 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 Said | nmod |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 hope | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 hope | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 hope | nsubj |
| 18 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Sagem | parataxis |
| 19 | Thou’lt | Thou'lt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 camp | compound |
| 20 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hope | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 us | case |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 hope | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 night | case |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 to | punct |
| 25 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hope | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 ill | punct |
| 27 | For | for | ADP | _ | 28 truly | case |
| 28 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 31 ill | obl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 ill | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 ill | cop |
| 31 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hope | conj |
| 32 | For | for | ADP | _ | 34 gentleman | case |
| 33 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 gentleman | det |
| 34 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ill | obl |
| 35 | To | to | PART | _ | 37 alone | mark |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 alone | cop |
| 37 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 ill | conj |
| 38 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 41 meet | advmod |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 meet | nsubj |
| 40 | Might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 meet | aux |
| 41 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 alone | parataxis |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 beasts | case |
| 43 | vulgar | vulgar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 beasts | amod |
| 44 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 meet | obl |
| 45 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 31 ill | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 ill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope in a quote | present | lupine land loafers = loafer | Thou’lt camp | night | with us | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | camp | for any gentleman; ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | camp not said here | alone property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | meet in a quote | might | gentleman | with vulgar beasts | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with beast=Co-Agent |
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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