Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 49
“I would scratch up trees by their roots That they might fall upon him.”
Who acts: Such, roots · What happens: scratch up, fall · To what, where: trees, roots
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 (Such, roots), 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 | _ | 4 scratch | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 scratch | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 scratch | aux |
| 4 | scratch | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 scratch | compound:prt |
| 6 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 scratch | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 roots | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 roots | nmod:poss |
| 9 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 scratch | obl |
| 10 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 fall | nsubj |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fall | nsubj |
| 12 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 fall | aux |
| 13 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 roots | acl:relcl |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fall | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 scratch | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 scratch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scratch up in a quote | would | Such | trees | by tree's roots | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tree=Patient by root=Location | |||
| 2 | fall in a quote | might | tree's roots | tree's roots not said here | upon Men; tree nsubj | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient root=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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