Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 3
But Malsum, the Wolf, Said: “Just as you will; But I am too great E’er to see the light As common creatures do; I will burst to light Rending everything E’en through death to life.”
Who acts: Malsum, common creatures · What happens: say, be, see, do, burst, rend · To what, where: light, everything, death · 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 (Malsum, common creatures), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 Said | cc |
| 2 | Malsum | Malsum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Wolf | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Wolf | det |
| 5 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Malsum | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Malsum | punct |
| 7 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 will | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 will | punct |
| 10 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 13 will | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 will | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 will | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 Said | ccomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 great | punct |
| 15 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 great | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 great | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 great | cop |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 great | advmod |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Said | conj |
| 20 | E’er | E'er | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 great | flat |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 see | mark |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 great | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 light | det |
| 24 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obj |
| 25 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 26 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 creatures | amod |
| 27 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 do | nsubj |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | advcl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 burst | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 burst | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 burst | aux |
| 32 | burst | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Said | ccomp |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 light | case |
| 34 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 burst | obl |
| 35 | Rending | rend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 burst | advcl |
| 36 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 35 Rending | obj |
| 37 | E’en | E'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 everything | appos |
| 38 | through | through | ADP | _ | 39 death | case |
| 39 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Rending | obl |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 life | case |
| 41 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Rending | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 burst | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Malsum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Malsum | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | Malsum not said here | the light | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present | common creatures | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | burst in a quote | future | Malsum | to light | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | rend in a quote | gerund | Malsum not said here | everything | death | to life result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent everything=Patient to life=Result |
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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