Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 47
No case is on record where a brave of the Wabanaki succumbed to the fearful pain and begged for mercy.
Who acts: case · What happens: be, succumb, beg · To what, where: record
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (case), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 case | det |
| 2 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 record | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 record | cop |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 record | case |
| 5 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 succumbed | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 brave | det |
| 8 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 succumbed | parataxis |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Wabanaki | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Wabanaki | det |
| 11 | Wabanaki | Wabanaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 brave | obl |
| 12 | succumbed | succumb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 record | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 pain | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pain | det |
| 15 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pain | amod |
| 16 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 succumbed | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 begged | cc |
| 18 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 succumbed | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 mercy | case |
| 20 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 begged | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 record | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | no case | record | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | succumb | past | to the fearful pain | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to pain=Theme | |||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | participle | for mercy | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for mercy=Topic |
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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