Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 6
Then the wise Kulóskap Thought how when he was born Malsumsis in his pride Had slain his mother; And he said: “If Wolf knew The secret of my life, That life would soon be o’er.”
Who acts: wise Kulóskap, Kulóskap, Wolf, life · What happens: think, bear, slay, say, know, be · To what, where: Kulóskap, pride, secret, o’er · 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 (wise Kulóskap, Kulóskap, Wolf, life), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 Thought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Kulóskap | det |
| 3 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Kulóskap | amod |
| 4 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Thought | nsubj |
| 5 | Thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 born | advmod |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 born | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 born | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 born | aux:pass |
| 10 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Thought | ccomp |
| 11 | Malsumsis | Malsumsis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 born | obj |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 slain | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 pride | nmod:poss |
| 14 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slain | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 slain | aux |
| 16 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 born | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slain | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 20 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 said | nsubj |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Thought | parataxis |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 knew | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 knew | punct |
| 25 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 knew | mark |
| 26 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 knew | nsubj |
| 27 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 said | ccomp |
| 28 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 secret | det |
| 29 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 knew | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 life | case |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 life | nmod:poss |
| 32 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 secret | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 o’er | punct |
| 34 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 life | det |
| 35 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 o’er | nsubj |
| 36 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 o’er | aux |
| 37 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 o’er | advmod |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 o’er | cop |
| 39 | o’er | o'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 knew | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the wise Kulóskap | then | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bear | past · passive | Kulóskap | Malsumsis obj | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary malsumsis=Patient | ||||
| 3 | slay | past · perfect · passive | Kulóskap's pride | Kulóskap's mother obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Kulóskap | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | Wolf | the secret of my life | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | would | that life | o’er | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | pride | Kulóskap | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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