Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 115

Howbeit in later days, Miʿko was Kulóskap’s dog, And, when the Master willed, He oft grew large again Touched by the Master’s hand, And slew his fiercest foes.

Who acts: Miʿko, Master · What happens: be, will, grow, touch, slay · To what, where: dog, fiercest foes

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miʿko, Master), 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	Howbeit	howbeit	ADV	_	10 dog	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 days	case
3	later	late	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Howbeit	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Howbeit	punct
6	Miʿko	Miʿko	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 dog	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dog	cop
8	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 dog	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 Kulóskap	case
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 willed	punct
12	And	and	CCONJ	_	17 willed	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 willed	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 willed	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Master	det
16	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 willed	nsubj
17	willed	will	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dog	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 grew	punct
19	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 grew	nsubj
20	oft	oft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 grew	nsubj
21	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 willed	conj
22	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 grew	xcomp
23	again	again	ADV	_	22 large	advmod
24	Touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 large	conj
25	by	by	ADP	_	29 hand	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Master	det
27	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 hand	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 Master	case
29	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Touched	obl:agent
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 slew	punct
31	And	and	CCONJ	_	32 slew	cc
32	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 grew	conj
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 foes	nmod:poss
34	fiercest	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 foes	amod
35	foes	foe	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 slew	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 dog	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Miʿko	Kulóskap's dog	Kulóskap nmod:poss; howbeit property	tree rules
2	will	past	the Master			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	grow	past	Miʿko		large property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	touch	participle	Miʿko not said here		the Master's hand obl:agent	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	slay	past	Miʿko not said here	Miʿko's fiercest foes		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foe=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 4, sentence 115