Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 117
“Well answered,” said the Lord, “And therefore, I ordain That from this day henceforth Thou and thy kind at large Shall ever dwell in trees.”
Who acts: Lord, kind · What happens: answer, say, ordain, dwell · To what, where: That, trees · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Lord, kind), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 answered | advmod |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Lord | det |
| 8 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ordain | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 ordain | punct |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ordain | cc |
| 12 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 15 ordain | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ordain | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 ordain | nsubj |
| 15 | ordain | ordain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 16 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 ordain | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 day | det |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ordain | obl |
| 20 | henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 21 Thou | advmod |
| 21 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 ordain | ccomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 kind | cc |
| 23 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 kind | nmod:poss |
| 24 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Thou | conj |
| 25 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 29 dwell | mark |
| 26 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 dwell | advcl |
| 27 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 dwell | aux |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 dwell | advmod |
| 29 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 kind | acl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 trees | case |
| 31 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 dwell | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert in a quote | participle | well property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Lord | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | ordain in a quote | present | the Lord = lord | That | day | Thou thy kind ccomp; therefore property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||
| 4 | dwell in a quote | shall | thy kind not said here | trees | ever | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location |
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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